Before I lay out specific complaints with this article, here's my post from the weekend. A Warning about Hype Surrounding the Manafort Tax Evasion Trial https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/07/29/on-the-hype-surrounding-the-manafort-tax-evasion-trial/ …https://twitter.com/adegrandpre/status/1023943319850762240 …
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Consider: the year 2016 appears 205 times in the Govt exhibit list: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.383106/gov.uscourts.vaed.383106.142.0_6.pdf …
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While the tax returns that will be used as exhibits go back to 2011, 2016's taxes will be discussed at length (there are emails about that tax return prep).pic.twitter.com/bcd6yWOXjG
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Perhaps most troubling, here's what appears in paragraphs 31 and 32 in a story that claims this trial is about work done years before Trump campaign.pic.twitter.com/rZxqP2vG71
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This is a story about how Manafort became so illiquid he had to break the law to maintain his lifestyle, but nevertheless worked for Trump for "free." The mortgage (¶31 of 33) is one explanation of how and why Manafort was willing to do it: to sustain more graft.
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The other explanation -- one we may see in an eventual Manafort trial that will detail how he asked Russians for help winning the election -- is that he wasn't working for "free," he was expecting compensation from Russia.
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Update: I'm going to correct myself. In a filing submitted today, Mueller's team argues essentially what WaPo did that I complained about in this tweet. I'd rephrase it (it's not abt kind of work--that's DC--it's abt $$ made) https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.383106/gov.uscourts.vaed.383106.182.0_1.pdf …https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1023949015120007168 …
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But it's clear Mueller intends (assuming they win this fight over evidence) to describe at some length how much work Manafort did for Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs, to establish that they paid him $60M.
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That's a fair complaint. What we meant -- which you may disagree with -- is that everything stems from work in Ukraine that predates Trump; the government frames the bank fraud as a response to Yanukovych's fall
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i think that may be true for some counts. It's clearly not true of the mortgage fraud count. Mostly, though, this case is about Manafort being a crook, regardless of the source of his money.
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Tho I guess the latest Mueller filing (response to Manafort's supplemental in iimine) makes your case for you.
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Yes but I take your point on the Calk loan. (Also, fwiw, EDVA not entirely internet-free... I'm tweeting from the media room right now. But only we, CNN, NBC WSJ, Courthouse News and AP have access)
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"[W]hen the cash stopped coming in" papers over how working for free plus "How do we use to get whole?" allegedly equals lots of fraud.
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Yes. I think this needs to be read as "not only but also".
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