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LAUNDEREDNew Mueller indictment: "Manafort, with the assistance of Gates, laundered more than $30,000,000, income that he concealed from" the Dept. of Treasury, DOJ, and others
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Cha
(297,154 posts)UpInArms
(51,280 posts)Am going to make some
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)this investigation of following the money is so complicated it will go into 2019. Mueller is very thorough.
Quixote1818
(28,928 posts)Especially if indictments keep coming
cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)The entire narrative for the midterms are going to be 100% impeach Trump.
mopinko
(70,078 posts)but he will be doing some serious time, now.
Me.
(35,454 posts)Between P & P
Prison or Polonium
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)Some plastic surgery and witness protection?
Me.
(35,454 posts)bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)Die for cheato, or eat a polonium sandwich a week after getting out of jail.
womanofthehills
(8,698 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)He'll try and survive without flipping. But even if he loses his case, he'll be out in a week and grinning about it with Donald on the golf course at Mar-a-Lago.
mopinko
(70,078 posts)i dont think the new york ag is sitting on his hands.
cant pardon him on that front.
sfwriter
(3,032 posts)That leaves $45 Mil. offshore, unlaundered? Does this money in any way touch Trump?
I think a money laundering charge scares Trump almost as much as a polonium enema from his buddy Putin. Decisions, decisions...
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Russians were by far the biggest overseas purchasers of Trump properties....and the money losing golf courses needed incredible amounts of capital, amounts only oligarchs and corrupt politicians could accumulate without having any actual real talent other than being criminals.
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)Mannafort also took out huge loans for his properties
"Chicago banker who loaned Paul Manafort millions summoned to talk to Manhattan"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-chicago-banker-stephen-calk-paul-manafort-loans-20171128-story.html
"Special counsel Robert Muellers office has told a federal judge it has found evidence that Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, committed bank fraud not addressed by the indictment last October in which he was charged with money laundering and failure to register as a foreign agent."
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/mueller-manafort-committed-bank-fraud
Mannafort would need a few miracles to walk free and then I wonder if he would be safe?
BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts)if Mueller can do that to Manafort, he can do it for Trump. Trump must know this *snicker*
packman
(16,296 posts)dembotoz
(16,799 posts)long run...running for office was a very stupid thing for trump to do cause the rules are different
magicarpet
(14,144 posts)Now he will be pushed into the meat-grinder of endless litigation, espionage, and treason.
He was better off just playing Monopoly in New York real estate and sticking to his petty crime money laundering syndicate.... But no the glutton wanted to be king of the universe... And the riches Oligarch on this side of the Milky Way.
WhiteTara
(29,704 posts)Is his ego SOOOO big that he thought no one would notice?
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)Rhymes with Chump, and season
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Fun times ahead.
lastlib
(23,213 posts). . . . .
(Pass the butter, please!)
dalton99a
(81,451 posts)TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)convict, and remove a sitting president. there should be, but the GOP is so crooked that they literally wouldn't care if their president was russian mob money launderer.
FSogol
(45,476 posts)It would be great tv to see him arrested at the airport.
Kaleva
(36,294 posts)Luciferous
(6,078 posts)orangecrush
(19,537 posts)Donnies pants
are turning brown!
alwaysinasnit
(5,065 posts)Wouldn't it be ironic if the Patriot Act and its ilk, passed after 9/11, facilitated following the money trail of corrupt politicians to help bring them down instead of just the (Islamic?) terrorist entities?
ancianita
(36,023 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,888 posts)red dog 1
(27,792 posts)Shitler is up to his neck being involved in money laundering schemes going back many years.