New York Has Prepared Paul Manafort Charges If Trump Pardons Him

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28. The issue as I understand it is..

You can't be tried twice for the same "crime". So if you are charged with murder at the federal level, and are acquitted, you can't be charged for murder under NYS law. It's the same crime, just a different jurisdiction (the same person is dead).

The crimes have to be materially different. Since there is no federal law that says you can't break NYS tax law, they couldn't charge you with that. They can charge you for breaking federal tax law, but state taxes are different, and the laws vary. So is that a different crime since it is a different tax entity?

I don't know. But that is the dance muehler and state prosecutors are performing. Muehler no doubt reviewed all the possible charges that he had evidence for and left enough for NYS to prosecute seperate and distinct crimes.

His goal was more to mount enough pressure on the smaller thugs to flip[ and give up info on the bigger thugs, then to maximize harm to the target.

If targets believed they could/would be pardoned and face no other charges, they would all clam up and keep trump happy.