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(6,377 posts)He's....
Manafucked.
MarcoZandrini
(39 posts)BAM!
JDC
(10,135 posts)brandnewday2009
(287 posts)still_one
(92,433 posts)Now that would be some great breaking news!
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)spooky3
(34,484 posts)Manafort lawyer sayin LIAR! LIAR! As he claimed that 2 judges declared no collusion.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)spooky3
(34,484 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)Take your corrupt Trump pardon and stuff it.
shockey80
(4,379 posts)titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)kennetha
(3,666 posts)Awesome news!
Stuart G
(38,449 posts)Who knows? I sure hope that they appear soon. I hope also that a couple of Trump's sons are indicted. That will definitely add to the show...
....more
dalton99a
(81,632 posts)BritVic
(262 posts)CatWoman
(79,302 posts)ooky
(8,930 posts)satisfy them for their laws he broke. If he's got any money left they may want that too.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)PubliusEnigma
(1,583 posts)angrychair
(8,736 posts)Least we forget he is rich and white. He'll get a couple more months? Still out in a couple years and still a millionaire.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)angrychair
(8,736 posts)Responsible for the 2007 financial collapse.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)about Bernie Madoff. Let me think about that.
angrychair
(8,736 posts)Madoff: One person. The crime straightforward and unambiguous.
2007 financial collapse: lots of people and corporations. Lots of politics. Lot more money involved than even Bernie Madoff could ever dream of.
Way more complicated to explain to the normal person.
That said, it should not have precluded the need to get justice for crashing the economy and the ppl that lost their life savings.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Saying what a raw deal he was getting and what a great guy he was. Or a federal judge claiming, incredulously, that he led a blameless life.
angrychair
(8,736 posts)Manafort has got off with as about as light a sentence as anybody could have imagined, so far below the federal sentencing guidelines as to be insulting to our intelligence.
It remains to be seen if they can make any of these charges stick given double jeopardy laws and such.
Trump was as flagrant and overt a criminal as one could possibly be before he became president: from his tax evasion and insurance fraud to his "university" and "foundation" (just to name about 5% of his crimes) and no one gave a rat's ass until after he won. I just doubt anything will come of all this and if we wait until 2020 and he loses than that will be it. Over. Everyone will go back to not caring again. Trump wins. He gets to retire on the govt dime and spend his freetime between golf and harassing the new Democratic president like he did Obama.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)like resigning in exchange for no charges against him and his spawn, he will face charges in NY. We will punish him for inflicting himself on the rest of the country. Our AG won largely because she promised to investigate the crap out of him and will dog him until there are no more questions.
TwilightZone
(25,493 posts)Of course, the state remains to be seen, but they wouldn't have filed the charges if they weren't taking them seriously.
liberal N proud
(60,346 posts)emulatorloo
(44,192 posts)Paul Manafort indicted on fraud charges by Manhattan prosecutors
Manafort was indicted on 16 counts tied to residential mortgage fraud and conspiracy, the indictment says.
March 13, 2019, 11:47 AM CDT / Updated March 13, 2019, 2:27 PM CDT
By Tom Winter and Rich Schapiro
Paul Manafort has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury in connection with a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme, according to court documents obtained by NBC News.
Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, was indicted on 16 counts tied to residential mortgage fraud and conspiracy, according to the indictment unsealed Wednesday.
The 69-year-old longtime GOP operative is accused of falsifying business records to illegally obtain millions of dollars as part of the yearlong mortgage fraud scam. If convicted on the top count, Manafort faces a prison sentence of 8 to 25 years, a senior law enforcement official told NBC News.
No one is beyond the law in New York, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said in a statement.
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Trump has the power to pardon Manafort on federal charges, but the president would have no authority to intervene in the event of a conviction on state charges.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,741 posts)No wonder the yellow asshat was screaming about NY yesterday.....They're always told ahead of time....