Special counsel releases 35-person witness list for upcoming trial against Manafort - Gates is #9

[kpete]

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000164-dd68-de41-a974-ddeb08c30001

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[mucifer]

1. Listen to those birds sing!

[cyclonefence]

2. Hesham Ali (if this is the right one)

is an academic at the University of Nebraska Omaha whose special interests are:


Bioinformatics
Wireless Networks
Graph Modeling
Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Mobile Computing
Scheduling

[oberliner]

3. That's not the right one

It's this guy:

Hesham H. Ali
Managing Director, Asset Management
New York
Prior to joining Perella Weinberg Partners, Mr. Ali was a Portfolio Manager at Permal Capital Management, a global alternative investment firm, where he managed the firm’s secondary private equity funds. While at Permal, Mr. Ali was responsible for sourcing and executing transactions along with general business development in Europe and the Middle East. Mr. Ali previously worked in the leveraged buyout group at Investcorp International. Prior to that, he was a Senior Associate at CrossHarbor Capital Partners (formerly Boston Capital Institutional Advisors), a Boston-based real estate private equity firm.

https://www.pwpartners.com/employee/hesham-h-ali

[cyclonefence]

4. Thanks

[Gothmog]

5. Witness list for Paul Manafort's trial includes Bernie Sanders' campaign strategist Devine

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[lapucelle]

7. I find the reporting a bit muddled.

Last week, however, it was revealed that Devine was mentioned 16 times in the evidence for the Manafort trial. It appears that Devine was in contact with Manafort and an alleged spy for Russia throughout the 2016 election.

The two men worked together nearly 20 years ago for former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and his pro-Kremlin Party of Regions. They were in contact until at least 2014. It’s unclear, however, if the two were still regularly speaking during the 2016 campaign and while Sanders was running against Clinton in the Democratic primary.

Russian bots promoted not only President Donald Trump, but in the Democratic primary, they were advocating for Sen. Bernie Sanders.

What do you make of that, Goth?

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/robert-muellers-witness-list-paul-manaforts-trial-includes-bernie-sanders-campaign-strategist-tad-devine/

[NCTraveler]

6. From February.

Former Trump aide Richard Gates to plead guilty; agrees to testify against Manafort, sources say

https://www.google.com/amp/www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-rick-gates-plea-deal-20180218-story.html%3foutputType=amp