Wednesday, November 28, 2018
The Manafort Developments
Things are getting interesting.
The Mueller team now has moved to alter Paul Manafort's plea agreement, asserting that his lies during proffer sessions relieve them of their obligations even as Manafort remains bound by the agreement's terms. And... that is how it works. He is in a tough spot that he designed.
Of course, there are a lot of other allegations flying around about Manafort:
-- That his lawyers were reporting back to the Trump team about the Mueller proffer sessions, giving Trump an idea of what Mueller was interested in.
-- That he met secretly with Julian Assange, the fugitive who released the emails stolen from the Clinton campaign, at Assange's hideout in the Ecuadorian embassy. Allegedly, this happened before Assange released the emails.
-- That he also went to Ecuador and met with the Ecuadorian President in 2017, after Trump was inaugurated.
As a prosecutor, I know that we are looking at a tiny part of a large beast, and I am loath to draw any broad conclusions about what has or will happen. It does seem, though, that the Mueller team has enough sources to know with certainty that Manafort lied to them-- and I find that quite intriguing. Manafort is no longer important to them, perhaps, now that they know the truth from other sources. If Trump pardons Manafort, it will be an injustice... but it probably will not affect the Mueller investigation one bit.
His usefulness is ended. He faces the worst sentence one can receive in the Trump world: irrelevance.
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Karma biting him in the ass. I heard that Mueller isn't asking him any questions that he doesn't already know the answers to.
I am more curious as to why he is appearing in court in a wheel chair. Apparently he has developed significant health issues since being sent to prison.
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I am more curious as to why he is appearing in court in a wheel chair. Apparently he has developed significant health issues since being sent to prison.
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