Andrew Weissman: Manafort pardon can't restore 31 million in restitution

[iluvtennis]

Andrew Weissmann
@AWeissmann_·17h
In the Manafort plea agreement, para 12, he relinquished all interest in the forfeited property criminally and civilly, precisely because we saw possibility of a pardon, which can have no effect on civil forfeiture. POTUS cannot change that through pardon power.

Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein · Dec 25
New doc from Justice Dept shows Trump pardon of Manafort covers $31+ million in restitution and $11 million in forfeiture. https://justice.gov/file/1349071/download… Experts say he could try to recover property feds haven't already sold. Earlier: https://google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/12/23/trump-pardons-manafort-stone-kushner-

Link to tweet

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Excellent news

Nothing but a gang of fkn crooks

[Grasswire2]

1. Weissmann is no one's fool.

He thought ahead, when working for Mueller.

[lame54]

2. What about his ostrich jacket?

[magicarpet]

4. The feathers were given back to the ostrich,...

.... too late. Besides the ostrich was kinda cold without them.

[iluvtennis]

5. LOL.

[malaise]

9. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

[Mr. Evil]

24. I bought that on Ebay. It's a doormat now.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Being poor may be a bigger punishment for that scumbag.

[bluedigger]

8. He'll never be poor as long as he keeps quiet.

Not poor as I know it anyways.

[machoneman]

6. Ah, but does anyone know if he actually paid up or forfeited the entire sum of $31 million?

Any takers? Source?

[RainCaster]

7. I have no fucks to give

[pecosbob]

14. Here is a spot-on video expressing just that feeling from Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq. (NSFW)

[Evolve Dammit]

10. Who the fuck would wear an ostrich jacket in the first place?? JHFC. Lock him back up.

[Joelteply]

13. Bjork

Wait, that was a swan

[jmowreader]

19. It's ostrich leather

[Evolve Dammit]

26. Is that good? Or impressive? Not getting the attraction, unless you're an ostrich.

[jmowreader]

28. Ostrich leather is really expensive for a couple of reasons

The big attraction of the stuff is that an ostrich has these cool-looking places on its skin where the feathers come out of. The problem is it ain't easy to process an ostrich hide into leather without flattening them out, and the special tanning processes cost serious money.

Also, an ostrich is fairly small as far as leather-bearing animals go...it takes about four ostrich hides to equal one cowhide.

Ostrich leather is going to run you around $30 per square foot, if you buy a hundred hides at once. (One at a time, they're even worse.) If you're any good at all at buying leather you can get the very nicest grade of cowhide leather for about $7 per square foot.

Strange thing is, the vast majority of ostrich leather winds up as footwear, mostly cowboy boots. Some of it becomes purses...very little winds up as Manafort jackets, because it's expensive.

[Evolve Dammit]

33. I consider myself informed now. Still not sure why anyone would want one, but I know. Thanks

[bringthePaine]

11. our badasses beat their dumbasses every time

[KS Toronado]

12. He'll be back in jail before long

He wasn't charged with everything they could have thrown at him, and the prosecutor did so foreseeing
a trumpig pardon coming his way. He's going back to jail.

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Are State Charges In Play?

If so, the pardon is irrelevant to those, I'd think.

[KS Toronado]

20. Not for sure about state charges, but I do remember reading here or on Palmer Report

that he was not charged with everything they could have charged him with because the
prosecutor wanted to keep something in his bag of tricks in case trumpig issued a pardon.
Which came to fruition as expected. Believe roger stone might be in the same boat.

[A_Woman_from_MI]

29. Puts me in mind of the "playing chess" analogy

Which, I know, is overused, and misunderstood by many (mostly people who don't know how to play chess:chuckle . I hope this is true, and everyone gets their just desserts. I despair for our country if we continue to refuse to hold the crooked responsible for their crimes.

[KS Toronado]

31. Welcome to DU, and Happy New Year.....Jan 20th

[BrightKnight]

32. The Postman Always Rings Twice. nt

[eleny]

17. Delicious

[FakeNoose]

18. I certainly hope so

... but I'm not holding my breath.

So many Repukes, so little time!

[TNNurse]

16. A small piece of information that is helpful.

To make it seem a little less awful, those pardons are horrific.

[Lars39]

21. Didn't he have a condo in trump tower?

[More_Cowbell]

22. Only $11 million was forfeited

I don't see anything in Weissmann's tweet that would prelude Manafort from recovering the $31 million he paid in restitution.

I'm not saying he'll get it back: just that it looks to me like Weissmann's talking only about the forfeiture in that tweet.

[Kid Berwyn]

23. It would seem he got whole with Deripaska.

Link to tweet

[former9thward]

25. The two tweets in the OP are contradictory.

One says property can't be gotten back and the other says just the opposite.

[iluvtennis]

27. Pardon says to return the property. Andrew Weismann the prosecutor for Manafort clarified

to say that can't occur because plea agreement that Manafort signed said he relinquinshes the property.

[former9thward]

30. The pardon nullifies the plea agreement.

That is the whole purpose of the pardon.