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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This WaPo article IS a good introduction in how Manafort's consulting ties together with his tax evasion. I like the way it pitches Manafort as the consummate lobbyist bc it universalizes sleazy influence-peddling. Good!
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But in my opinion this inaccurate (it would be true of the DC case, but this isn't the DC case).pic.twitter.com/ibp9uT4qvS
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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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Didn't he owe Deripaska a rather large amount, much of which was apparently 'forgiven' or at least removed from attempted adjudication after Manafort acquired his position and later offered 'OVD' inside info on the campaign?
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I think we'll learn the full details of that in any "collusion" trial. Not sure we know now.
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Given that Gates was party to the suit OVD filed in Caymans, Cyprus and Virginia before the election (and subsequently this January) I'd imagine that part will open some very interesting lines of inquiry in the DC case.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-10/manafort-sued-by-russian-billionaire-deripaska-over-ukraine-deal …
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