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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Jan 8, 2019, 10:41 PM Jan 2019

Paul Manafort's Lawyers Appear to Accidentally Blow the Door Open on Collusion

The legal saga of Paul Manafort took yet another twist on Tuesday.

Lawyers for Trump’s disgraced former campaign chairman, who was convicted of tax and bank fraud last year, submitted a filing in Washington, D.C., federal court responding to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s assertion that Manafort had lied to Mueller’s office and so violated his plea agreement. Manafort’s lawyers pushed back on that claim by saying that he had extensively cooperated with Mueller, meeting with the government lawyers and investigators a dozen times and twice testifying before a grand jury.

But Manafort’s team screwed up.

They tried to redact four different passages in their filing, but failed to do so properly, leaving the redacted text in plain sight. For instance, Manafort’s lawyers responded to Mueller’s allegation that Manafort lied to the government about his interactions with a man named Konstantin Kilimnik, who was Manafort’s right-hand man during his time as a powerful political consultant in Ukraine. What’s more noteworthy is that Kilimnik has alleged connections to Russian intelligence.




https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/paul-manafort-russia-collusion-776399/
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Paul Manafort's Lawyers Appear to Accidentally Blow the Door Open on Collusion (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2019 OP
Hilarious underpants Jan 2019 #1
So THAT'S what 'spoiler tag' means ... HUH?!? (nt) mr_lebowski Jan 2019 #2
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