Manafort shared campaign info with Russian intelligence officer, Senate panel finds. ‘Good to be a criminal who is friends with the president’: Manafort early prison release draws outrage – ‘doesn’t qualify’ “Released to home confinement amid growing outbreak of white privilege” The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on Wednesday released convicted felon Paul Manafort to home confinement, citing concerns over the coronavirus pandemic.
But many online quickly expressed outrage upon learning the President’s former campaign chairman who has ties to Russia is housed in a prison that has no coronavirus cases. Under Attorney General Bill Barr federal prisons have slowly been releasing prisoners from jail to reduce the spread of coronavirus, but certain conditions must be met. Prisoners have to have served at least half their sentence, or served at least one-quarter of their sentence and have less than 18 months remaining. Manafort meets none of those requirements. Paul Manafort Trying To Ferment Vintage Cheval Blanc In Toilet Tank. A federal judge unsealed 50 pages of text messages between Paul Manafort and Sean Hannity. Paul Manafort Seemed Headed to Rikers. Then the Justice Department Intervened. Looks Like Paul Manafort Is Headed to NYC's Notorious Rikers Island Lock-Up. Looks like Paulie Numbnuts is about to relocate after a New York Grand Jury indicted him on 16 counts of various financial crimes in March.
Rikers Island, voted one of America’s 10 worst prisons by Mother Jones Magazine looks to be the locale where Manafort will be summering. The Daily Beast. New York Charges Manafort With 16 Crimes. If He’s Convicted, Trump Can’t Pardon Him. [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]
Paul J. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, has been charged in New York with mortgage fraud and more than a dozen other state felonies, the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., said Wednesday, an effort to ensure he will still face prison time if Mr. Trump pardons him for his federal crimes. News of the indictment came shortly after Mr. The president has broad power to issue pardons for federal crimes, but has no such authority in state cases. While Mr. Time Drops Bomb On The Russian Usurper. Little Kremlin-on-the-Potomac Bob Mueller be like… …and with that, I read the Time Magazine article, and it is a hum-dinger!
“A months-long investigation by TIME, however, found that Boyarkin, a former arms dealer with a high forehead and a very low profile, was a key link between a senior member of the Trump campaign and a powerful ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.” “A high forehead and a very low profile” sounds like they took a page from the MPS style guide. I feel so honored. Exclusive: Russian Ex-Spy Pressured Manafort Over Debts to an Oligarch. When the U.S. government put out its latest sanctions list on Dec. 19, the man named at the top did not seem especially important.
Described in the document as a former Russian intelligence officer, he was accused of handling money and negotiations on behalf of a powerful Russian oligarch. The document did not mention that the man, Victor Boyarkin, had links to the 2016 campaign of President Donald Trump. A months-long investigation by TIME, however, found that Boyarkin, a former arms dealer with a high forehead and a very low profile, was a key link between a senior member of the Trump campaign and a powerful ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In his only interview with the media about those connections, Boyarkin told TIME this fall that he was in touch with Trump’s then-campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, in the heat of the presidential race on behalf of the Russian oligarch. “He owed us a lot of money,” Boyarkin says. The Brief Newsletter ‘Our friend V’ The Montenegro connection. The Guardian’s Reputation In Tatters After Forger Revealed To Have Co-Authored Assange Smear. By Elizabeth Vos Source: Disobedient Media Regular followers of WikiLeaks-related news are at this point familiar with the multiple serious infractions of journalistic ethics by Luke Harding and the Guardian, especially (though not exclusively) when it comes to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.
However, another individual at the heart of this matter is far less familiar to the public. That man is Fernando Villavicencio, a prominent Ecuadorian political activist and journalist, director of the USAID-funded NGO Fundamedios and editor of online publication FocusEcuador. Most readers are also aware of the Guardian’s recent publication of claims that Julian Assange met with former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort on three occasions. In May, Disobedient Media reported on the Guardian’s hatchet-job relating to ‘Operation Hotel,’ or rather, the normal security operations of the embassy under former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. Who is Fernando Villavicencio? Like this: Politics.theonion. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow details how Manafort's trial connects to the Russia probe: 'Something important is about to happen'
- The Washington Post. READ IT: Bombshell evidence of Manafort's attempts to influence witness testimonies accidentally released. Politics.theonion. Manafort's Witness Tampering Allegation from Mueller Hurts Trump. Mueller: Paul Manafort may have been the Trump campaign's 'back channel' to Russia. Paul Manafort faces new claim of bank fraud while trying to renegotiate his bail agreement.
Paul Manafort Teamed Up With Obama’s Lawyer to Help Putin Ally. It wasn’t just Republicans.
When Paul Manafort needed a powerful D.C. law firm to bless an alarming act by his clients in Kiev’s pro-Kremlin regime in Kiev, Donald Trump’s future campaign chairman turned to attorneys with significant ties to Barack Obama’s administration. In exchange, a team led by Obama’s former White House counsel Greg Craig at the firm of Skadden Arps produced a report that whitewashed the pro-Putin government of Viktor Yanukovych for jailing Yanukovych’s anti-Kremlin predecessor. Manafort Had $60 Million Relationship With a Russian Oligarch - NBC News. LONDON — Paul Manafort, a former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, has much stronger financial ties to a Russian oligarch than have been previously reported.
An NBC News investigation reveals that $26 million changed hands in the form of a loan between a company linked to Manafort and the oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, a billionaire with close ties to the Kremlin. The loan brings the total of their known business dealings to around $60 million over the past decade, according to financial documents filed in Cyprus and the Cayman Islands. Manafort was forced to resign from the Trump campaign in August 2016, following allegations of improper financial dealings, charges he has strenuously denied. Russiagate Dominoes Are Starting to Fall - Rolling Stone.
The first big, fat domino in Donald Trump's Russiagate scandal is about to topple over: Robert Mueller, the special counsel appointed to investigate whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia's hack-and-leak attack during the 2016 election, has told Trump's 2016 campaign manager that he's going to be indicted, according to The New York Times, in a blockbuster front-page story.
And not only that: CNN, with a blockbuster of its own, reports that the campaign manager, Paul Manafort, has for years been subject to a court-ordered wiretap, allowing federal agents to listen to his conversations, both before and – shockingly – after the 2016 election. It's even possible that the agents recorded conversations this year between Manafort and Donald Trump after he took office, says CNN.
So who, exactly, is Paul Manafort, and why is he so important? In the 2000s, through a successor firm, Davis Manafort Partners, Manafort built close ties to Russians and pro-Russian Ukrainians. Ukraine ‘Black ledger’ that forced Manafort out of Trump campaign exists — and he was paid at least $1.2M. Paul Manafort’s Business Partner Left Pro-Trump Group Because of Russia Ties, Sources Say. The president’s ex-campaign manager was bounced thanks to his alleged ties to Moscow, but his No. 2 never really left—until now.
The swirling maelstrom around President Donald Trump and his team’s alleged ties to Russia may have claimed another victim on Thursday. Rick Gates, one of six former Trump campaign aides who joined the nonprofit group America First Policies to support Trump’s agenda, left the organization just two months into the president’s term. On Thursday night America First Policies announced on Twitter that Gates was leaving the group. America First Policies spokesperson Katrina Pierson told The Daily Beast that Gates was done with his work for the nonprofit and simply moved on.
“Rick volunteered to help set up the organization and build out the administrative tasks,” Pierson said. “We just wanted to notify everyone in real time so that there wouldn’t be a flurry of rumors,” Pierson told The Daily Beast. Thank You! You are now subscribed to the Daily Digest and Cheat Sheet. Hacked Texts Suggest Manafort Continued to Play a Role After Departing Trump Campaign.
Paul Manafort’s central role in the Trump-Russia investigation, explained. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation about Russian collusion has increasingly appeared to zero in on one particular Trump associate: Paul Manafort. In July, we learned that Manafort — Trump’s former campaign manager — attended a meeting Donald Trump Jr. set up with a Russian lawyer last year to get dirt on Hillary Clinton.
Later that month, the FBI raided Manafort’s house for documents.