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FBI conducted pre-dawn raid of Manafort's home in late July.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:13 am
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:13 am
FBI agents raided the Alexandria home of President Trump’s former campaign chairman late last month, using a search warrant to seize documents and other materials, according to people familiar with the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Federal agents appeared at Paul Manafort’s home without advance warning in the predawn hours of July 26, the day after he met voluntarily with the staff for the Senate Intelligence Committee.
The search warrant was wide-ranging and FBI agents working with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III departed the home with various records.
Washington Post Aug 9, 2017 9:53 a.m.
Federal agents appeared at Paul Manafort’s home without advance warning in the predawn hours of July 26, the day after he met voluntarily with the staff for the Senate Intelligence Committee.
The search warrant was wide-ranging and FBI agents working with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III departed the home with various records.
Washington Post Aug 9, 2017 9:53 a.m.
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Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:14 am to LSU1NSEC
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FBI conducted pre-dawn raid of Manafort's home in late July.
The FBI
...they planting shite?
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:15 am to LSU1NSEC
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:15 am to LSU1NSEC
Manafort bought his house in cash. You think he's gonna have any meaningful records?
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:15 am to LSU1NSEC
quote:Of course it was wide ranging you can't hunt witches without it.
search warrant was wide-ranging
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:16 am to LSU1NSEC
quote:
The search warrant was wide-ranging
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:21 am to LSU1NSEC
quote:
The search warrant was wide-ranging and FBI agents working with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III departed the home with various records.
quote:So they raided his home at dawn for 'records' he may not have turned in already almost two weeks ago? He has not been arrested so what did the hunt not find?
The raid came as Manafort has been voluntarily producing documents to congressional committees investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. The search warrant indicates investigators may have argued to a federal judge they had reason to believe Manafort could not be trusted to turn over all records in response to a grand jury subpoena.
new LINK but this is all generated from WaPo. If they truly had something on him WaPo would not have leaked this from their sauces
This post was edited on 8/9/17 at 9:23 am
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:22 am to LSU1NSEC
No idea if Manafort did or did not do anything wrong, but if he still had any evidence of any value left in July 2017 he deserves to go to jail. I'm sure he had a boating accident on the Chesapeake Bay where he lost all his cell phones, iPads, laptops, and other electronic devices. Also a small fire in his workshop where nearly all his paper documents were mysteriously destroyed.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:24 am to LSU1NSEC
I thought you tell the FBI what you're going to give them and when.
That's what Hillary did
That's what Hillary did
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:25 am to Pax Regis
or maybe he borrowed a hammer from the democrats.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:25 am to LSU1NSEC
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:27 am to Pax Regis
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No idea if Manafort did or did not do anything wrong, but if he still had any evidence of any value left in July 2017 he deserves to go to jail. I'm sure he had a boating accident on the Chesapeake Bay where he lost all his cell phones, iPads, laptops, and other electronic devices. Also a small fire in his workshop where nearly all his paper documents were mysteriously destroyed.
Manafort isn't a Clinton operative.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:29 am to LSU1NSEC
Just a casual pre-dawn FBI raid aka nothingburger
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:29 am to LSU1NSEC
Cant read the article, does it make mention of this being related to the Northern VA grand jury that was impaneled?
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:30 am to The Pirate King
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:30 am to LSU1NSEC
New rule for dealing with the FBI -- just make sure they can't prove intent.
If you broke the law, but didn't intend to break the law back when you were breaking the law then you're good.
What's the worst that can happen? FBI Director may have to release a public statement and you'll lose an election. That's better than going to jail.
If you broke the law, but didn't intend to break the law back when you were breaking the law then you're good.
What's the worst that can happen? FBI Director may have to release a public statement and you'll lose an election. That's better than going to jail.
This post was edited on 8/9/17 at 9:32 am
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:35 am to LSU1NSEC
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It could also have been intended to send a message to President Trump’s former campaign chairman that he should not expect gentle treatment or legal courtesies from Mueller’s team.
Seems like a political witch hunt.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:36 am to LSU1NSEC
Probable cause...wonder for what.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:41 am to LSU1NSEC
The Best People
Posted on 8/9/17 at 9:42 am to GumboPot
quote:It is about the stupid honeypot Junior meeting.
It could also have been intended to send a message to President Trump’s former campaign chairman that he should not expect gentle treatment or legal courtesies from Mueller’s team.
The documents included materials Manafort had already provided to Congress, said people familiar with the search.
“If the FBI wanted the documents, they could just ask [Manafort] and he would have turned them over,” said one adviser close to the White House.
Josh Stueve, spokesman for Mueller, declined to comment, as did Reginald Brown, an attorney for Manafort.
The search came as Mueller has increased legal pressure on Manafort, consolidating under his authority a series of unrelated investigations into various aspects of Manafort’s professional and personal life.
Manafort’s allies fear that Mueller hopes to build a case against Manafort unrelated to the 2016 campaign, in hopes that the former campaign operative would provide information against others in Trump’s inner circle in exchange for lessening his own legal exposure.
The significance of the records seized from Manafort’s apartment is unclear.
Manafort has provided documents to both the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate and House intelligence committees. The documents are said to include notes Manafort took while attending a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower in June 2016.
Related: Manafort turns over notes from Trump Tower meeting with Russian lawyer
Emails show Trump Jr. took the meeting and invited Manafort after he was promised the lawyer would deliver damaging information about Hillary Clinton as part of a Russian government effort to assist his father’s campaign.
Philip Rucker contributed to this report.
WaPo's opinion added about a message to POTUS that Mueller is tough-- ruined any real reporting it may have had.
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