Renato MariottiKonto zweryfikowane

1/ My initial thoughts on the Manafort and Gates indictment were in this thread:https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/924991226008489984 …

2/ What I’m struck by is the breadth of charges brought against Manafort and Gates at this very early stage. I expected only narrow charges.

3/ Mueller *did* bring those narrow charges in the indictment and they will be very hard to defend against.

4/ Either you made a disclosure or you didn’t. Either you had a foreign bank account or you didn’t. Prosecutors love charges like that.

5/ But there was also a broad conspiracy charge which will allow Mueller to get a wide array of evidence before the jury.

6/ The most powerful evidence to the jury could be the wealth and lavish spending outlined in the indictment.

7/ Federal prosecutors usually get a conviction and I doubt Mueller brought these charges if he didn’t have the goods to prove them.

8/ Given that Manafort and Gates are looking at years in prison, if they don’t expect to get pardoned, they should consider cooperating.