Prosecutors suggest Paul Manafort may be trying to get $1 million out of his forfeiture

[UpInArms]

Source: CNN

Prosecutors suspect Paul Manafort might be trying to secretly claw back about a million dollars he agreed to hand over to the government for his financial crimes — and he could be using the same type of shell company at the core of his legal problems to fake a loan.

A mysterious shell company named Woodlawn LLC — which formed in the middle of special cousel Robert Mueller's investigation into Manafort in August 2017 — claimed in court that it deserves $1 million from Manafort's forfeiture proceeding. The company says Manafort, who was Donald Trump's presidential campaign chairman, still owes that amount to pay back a 2017 mortgage loan.

In a court filing Saturday, the prosecutor said he could not tell if the Nevada-registered corporation's $1 million loan to Manafort was "a real or sham transaction."

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The company, prosecutors point out, hasn't shared where the money in the loan came from or who owns the company. Woodlawn has only been affiliated with "a manager who apparently resigned shortly after verifying the initial petition and the company's lawyer who subsequently took over that function." The company has no address of its own.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/23/politics/paul-manafort-million-dollars-forfeiture/index.html

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Grifters gotta grift

[marble falls]

1. Grifter gotta grift. Maybe being picked up on this will increase his sentence, at least ...

void his 'good' time.

[PatSeg]

2. Apparently, its in his DNA

He just can't do anything without lying, cheating, and stealing.

[dem4decades]

3. I'd say lock him up but he already is. So take more of his ill gotten gains.

[TruckFump]

4. Interesting info from the NV Sec of State Biz search for Woodland LLC.

The name of the alleged "manager" is: JAVEETER S WOOD

Search that "manager's" name and you get:

"Javeeter S Wood is a privately held company in Acworth, GA and is a Single Location business.

Categorized under Real Estate. Our records show it was established in 2008 and incorporated in Georgia. Current estimates show this company has an annual revenue of 82715 and employs a staff of approximately 1."

https://www.manta.com/c/mmp5dt5/javeeter-s-wood

Sham much?

[catbyte]

5. But otherwise he's lived such a blameless life...

[NCjack]

9. +1

[True_Blue]

15. Just another garden variety crime

[Firestorm49]

6. Cheese ball politics.

[SayItLoud]

7. Country Club Prison

From what I've read when he goes to Fed lock up it's country club. Any DUers have intel on this, if true or not? This slime bucket needs hard time in tough conditions.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Not all FPs are Club Fed

For example, there's one here in Philly right downtown a couple blocks from Independence Hall -



Which is not like the oft-talked about "Allenwood" -



(but obviously he's not going into a super max either)

[Progressive Jones]

13. That Federal lockup in Philly may be similar to the one in Chicago.

The one we have here in Chicago houses inmates who are currently wrapped up in cases at the Federal court here.
The Philly building looks much nicer.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. The building here is "newer" (in quotes)

It opened around June 2000.

I remember when Lil' Kim was locked up in there in 2005. Her fans would often drop by the outside of the building just to look and point at the slit windows. They were definitely there when she was released.

[Eugene]

12. Judge Amy Berman Jackson has recommended that he serve time at medium security FCI Cumberland.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-manafort/us-judge-recommends-manafort-serve-sentence-in-maryland-prison-idUSKCN1R32N4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Correctional_Institution,_Cumberland

That's harder time than Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli got.

[Mustellus]

8. Woodlawn LLC is my company.....

Send me the million dollars.

[Mr.Bill]

11. Since when do the courts

pay off the debts of convicted felons with assets seized from them?

What a ridiculous premise.