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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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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