2/ I agree with @Mimirocah1 @danielsgoldman & other former prosecutors:
Scheduling of Flynn's sentencing probably means they are satisfied with his cooperation AND they probably have corroborated enough of his grand jury testimony. But I had a lingering questions about that...
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3/ Former prosecutors were making this connection based on Flynn + Manafort. But I had a question: One of Flynn's key links to collusion is Dec 2016, according to
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4/ Manafort could have corroborated some of Flynn's information, but not the key events of Dec-Jan 2016. And Manafort also joined too late, too (March-April). But this Cohen story might help: he can corroborate more before and after Manafort, even if he wasn't in loop in Dec.
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5/ Maybe Cohen gives this stool a third leg (w/Flynn and Manafort), and also a longer timeline: From long before the campaign, up to Flynn and then Manafort joining, and then some link to corruption after Manafort left. That might help explain why they're ready to sentence Flynn.
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6/ Cohen was not in inner circle Nov 2016 through Jan 2017, but perhaps Flynn has given enough hard evidence of his conspiracy, and Cohen helps fill in the background and contacts to link Trump more directly to Flynn's Russian conspirators.
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7/ I was skeptical when Comey said yesterday he thinks Mueller may be in “the fourth quarter." Too many moving parts, too many new leads. But I am a bit less skeptical today, esp. if Cohen has roped in Trump Org's CFO Alan Weisselberg. H/t
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I think Mueller is in the fourth quarter too. I think he's just putting additional decorations on the conspiracy in chief tree, and will farm out the rest of garden variety corruption to SDNY.
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People are sleeping on what George Nader knows. Mueller presumably has enormous leverage there and thus Nader's lawyer isn't leaking and/but I wouldn't take press silence to mean inactivity. Nader a big player no later than January 2017.
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I'm not.
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Marcy, can you point to any past work you or others might have done connecting the larger ConFraudUS case to Nader, the Seychelles meeting, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel, etc.
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This post ends there. https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/08/21/it-is-false-that-there-was-no-follow-up-to-the-june-9-meeting/ … And this focuses on Jared's "peace" efforts. https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/02/21/jareds-clearance-and-the-foreign-policy-version-of-conspiracy-to-defraud-america/ …
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