Mueller: Secret Court Order Suspended Statute Of Limitations On Manafort Charge

[kpete]

Special Counsel Robert Mueller obtained a secret order from a federal magistrate judge to suspend the statute of limitations on one of the charges he ultimately brought against Paul Manafort, a court filing revealed Monday evening. Mueller did not inform Manafort of the secret order until after the former Trump campaign chairman had requested that charge be thrown out, the filing said.

Mueller also disclosed in the Monday court filing that, as recently as April 30 of this year, the government of Cyprus was still turning over documents related to the special counsel’s Manafort investigation.

Because investigators were relying on a foreign government to produce certain evidence, Mueller last June asked a magistrate judge in Virginia to suspend the statute of limitations on the charge that Manafort failed to to file a Foreign Bank Account Report (FBAR), according to the filing. Mueller ultimately brought that charge against Manafort in February. The judge’s decision granting Mueller’s request to suspend the statute of limitations was previously under seal, but was included in Monday’s filings.

The revelation came in a response to Manafort’s motion to dismiss the FBAR charge in the Eastern District of Virginia, where he is also facing tax fraud and bank fraud charges. That case is in addition to the one brought in Washington, D.C., where Manafort has been charged with money laundering and failure to disclose foreign lobbying.

Manafort has pleaded not guilty to all charges.


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[C_U_L8R]

1. And Trump thought he could run out the clock

D'oh !

[meow2u3]

10. Trump himself would face suspended statute of limitations for his crimes

The fact that he's a (alleged) sitting president doesn't allow him to run out the clock. When he leaves office, the statute of limitations resumes.

[Hav]

2. Awww, bummer!

They must believe that they deal with lawyers on Cohen's level to think they can get away with that on technicalities.

[Vinca]

3. Mueller's playing for keeps.

[WhiteTara]

4. Because he pleading innocent, we get to find out lots

of things during his trial. I have no idea why he didn't plead guilty and keep all this under wraps, but it's going to be the best summer since 1973 during Nixon's Watergate congressional hearings.

[RandomAccess]

5. I think he's afraid for his life, personally

He knows so much that if he squeals he'll be at risk at the hands of several angry, bloodthirsty Russian oligarchs.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. I believe that too. n/t

[LenaBaby61]

8. "I think he's afraid for his life, personally."

Agree ^^^

ALL of these people associated with and connected to Fatso are viscous mobsters. Fatso and his family are tRump Crime Family Incorporated themselves.

But those Oligarchs Manafort's ripped off are some NASTY, NASTY pieces of work, who'd take him out even if they took a giant on the money he ripped them off of. From all I've read about him and heard his own daughters say about him, Manafort's an arrogant, thieving, conniving, greedy con artist, who'd probably rip his own Mother off.

[RandomAccess]

9. And one of his daughters claimed, or perhaps just hinted,

that Manafort himself had been responsible for at least one death (IIRC the details).

[WhiteTara]

11. Well, open trial isn't going to be his friend, either.

[shraby]

7. If he's pleading not guilty to the charges to avoid any polonium, it seems to me a

not guilty plea would bring more information into public scrutiny than a guilty plea would