Ex-Trump campaign manager Manafort to appeal jailing order

By Sarah N. Lynch

 

FILE PHOTO: Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort arrives for arraignment on a third superseding indictment against him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on charges of witness tampering, at U.S. District Court in Washington, U.S. June 15, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawyers for Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's former presidential campaign manager, said on Monday they plan to appeal a judge's decision to jail Manafort while he awaits a criminal trial in Washington this fall.

 

Judge Amy Berman Jackson in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia sided with prosecutors from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office this month, agreeing to send Manafort to jail after he was hit with new criminal charges that he tampered with witnesses while under house arrest.

 

Manafort's attorneys also said on Monday they plan to appeal an April 27 decision by Jackson dismissing a related civil lawsuit that had challenged the scope of Mueller's authority.

 

Manafort is facing two indictments in Washington and Virginia arising from Mueller’s investigation into potential collusion between Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia. His Washington trial is scheduled for September.

 

Manafort has pleaded not guilty to charges including conspiring to launder money, bank and tax fraud and failing to register as a foreign agent for the pro-Russia Ukraine government.

 

He has been held in a jail in Virginia since Jackson revoked his bond on June 15, after prosecutors presented evidence during a court hearing about Manafort's alleged efforts to influence witnesses' testimony.

 

On Monday, Manafort asked the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to agree that he not attend a motions hearing, according to a court filing.

 

His lawyers said in the filing that transport between jail and court would take at least two hours each way, and Manafort was waiving his right to attend Friday's hearing and agreed to be represented by his attorneys instead.

 

To date, Manafort has not prevailed in any efforts to dismiss the charges or suppress evidence against him in the Washington case.

 

In April, when Jackson dismissed his civil case challenging Mueller's authority, the judge found that using a civil case to challenge criminal charges "is not the appropriate vehicle" for attacking prosecutors' actions.

 

(Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe and Clarence Fernandez)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-06-26

12 minutes ago, webfact said:

His lawyers said in the filing that transport between jail and court would take at least two hours each way

 

Maybe we could put him up at the nearby Ritz-Carlton? I'm sure Oleg Deripaska will foot the bill.

 

 

He should have obeyed his bail conditions.

 

 

He’s toast!

Keep this crime lord locked up as long as possible. He is an absolute menace to society. The number of laws he broke are astounding. And those are just the ones we know of. He has zero respect for the law, his nation, or his honor. He is a fool and a pussy. 

When your o n daughter has this to say about you:

 

https://politicsmaven.io/theintellectualist/news/in-series-of-text-messages-paul-manafort-s-daughter-implicates-her-father-in-mass-murder-3QYf7RjMh0a8yRWFEc-LsA/

Just a few things his own daughter said about Manafort. Keep him locked up. He is a danger to society, and just the fact that Trump hired this guy, says an awful lot about the character of the president.

 

Some of Andrea Manafort’s texts with context courtesy of Business Insider:

1. "Don’t fool yourself,” Andrea wrote to her sister, according to the texts. “That money we have is blood money.” “You know he has killed people in Ukraine? Knowingly,” she continued, according to the reviewed texts. “As a tactic to outrage the world and get focus on Ukraine. Remember when there were all those deaths taking place. A while back. About a year ago. Revolts and what not. Do you know whose strategy that was to cause that, to send those people out and get them slaughtered."

2."In a later exchange with a man who appeared to be Andrea’s cousin — and one of her father’s former employees — Collin Bond, Andrea appears to have said her mother and father couldn’t go through a “public divorce” because Manafort had “too many skeletons” and “his work and payment in Ukraine is legally questionable."

3."He is a sick f—ing tyrant,” Andrea appears to have said to Bond about her father. “And we keep showing up and dancing for him. … We just keep showing up and eating the lobster. Nothing changes."

4."In March 2015, Andrea said their father had “no moral or legal compass."

Giuliani put away mobsters for years back in 70's and 80's under Rico laws for less than what manafort has been found guilty of.

Trump should be put away for consorting, aiding and abetting him

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

Just a few things his own daughter said about Manafort. Keep him locked up. He is a danger to society, and just the fact that Trump hired this guy, says an awful lot about the character of the president.

 

Some of Andrea Manafort’s texts with context  courtesy of Business Insider:

1. "Don’t fool yourself,” Andrea wrote to her sister, according to the texts. “That money we have is blood money.” “You know he has killed people in Ukraine? Knowingly,” she continued, according to the reviewed texts. “As a tactic to outrage the world and get focus on Ukraine. Remember when there were all those deaths taking place. A while back. About a year ago. Revolts and what not. Do you know whose strategy that was to cause that, to send those people out and get them slaughtered."

2."In a later exchange with a man who appeared to be Andrea’s cousin — and one of her father’s former employees — Collin Bond, Andrea appears to have said her mother and father couldn’t go through a “public divorce” because Manafort had “too many skeletons” and “his work and payment in Ukraine is legally questionable."

3."He is a sick f—ing tyrant,” Andrea appears to have said to Bond about her father. “And we keep showing up and dancing for him. … We just keep showing up and eating the lobster. Nothing changes."

4."In March 2015, Andrea said their father had “no moral or legal compass."

Yes he is trump cohort.

ANYTHING, ANYTHING for money

9 minutes ago, Expatthailover said:

Yes he is trump cohort.

ANYTHING, ANYTHING for money

Well, that is certainly true. No doubt about that. But, what is really shocking here, is that even though there is no doubt they knew about his background before hiring him, he was hired anyway. That is how low the bar is set, with Tiny Don. He just does not care. Ethics, morality, fair play, decency, and honor never, ever enter the decision making process, nor are ever reflected in the behavior of this reprobate, hate mongering fool. The bar has forever been lowered.

33 minutes ago, Expatthailover said:

Giuliani put away mobsters for years back in 70's and 80's under Rico laws for less than what manafort has been found guilty of.

Trump should be put away for consorting, aiding and abetting him

please enlighten us oh superior virtuous one exactly how "Trump is aiding and abetting him"

3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Well, that is certainly true. No doubt about that. But, what is really shocking here, is that even though there is no doubt they knew about his background before hiring him, he was hired anyway. That is how low the bar is set, with Tiny Don. He just does not care. Ethics, morality, fair play, decency, and honor never, ever enter the decision making process, nor are ever reflected in the behavior of this reprobate, hate mongering fool. The bar has forever been lowered.

You wait until we hear who recommended him for the job!

9 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

You wait until we hear who recommended him for the job!

The two men first connected through a mutual friend, real estate investor Thomas Barrack, through whom Manafort sent his first memos to Trump, according to the Times.

 

I don't see any crime in this or any "russian collusion" but I am sure it will be cooked up somehow

What no silk jump suit awww poor poor Paul ya traitor rot you sob hope your cellie is a large aggressive homosexual 

It's time to bring all the federal charges against Manafort.

Enough of any games to flip him, there's dozens of witnesses and 'collaborators' I'm sure Mueller has in preparation.

Meanwhile this bit of good news:

 

Manafort’s attempt to have charges against him dropped on the basis of his claim Mueller had no jurisdiction over Manafort - FAIL

 

 

Manafort the law and the law won.

23 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

Manafort the law and the law won.

Manafort is about to learn another lesson.

His constitutional right to a speedy trial will do him no favors as he tries to continue delays.

I'm sure federal and state prosecutors will do their best to make Manafort's trials be as swift as possible.

14 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

Manafort is about to learn another lesson.

His constitutional right to a speedy trial will do him no favors as he tries to continue delays.

I'm sure federal and state prosecutors will do their best to make Manafort's trials be as swift as possible.

They’ll prosecute one of the more easily proved charges in order to get him locked up, then choose charges that are linked to Russia’s interference in the election/collusion with Russia.

 

Manafort is toast!

38 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

They’ll prosecute one of the more easily proved charges in order to get him locked up, then choose charges that are linked to Russia’s interference in the election/collusion with Russia.

 

Manafort is toast!

Get some of the low hanging fruit to get to the top of the orange tree.

Marmalade on that toast sir?

So, a LOT of wishful thinking and even 1 "tried and convicted" and his 1st trial doesn't even start for 3 months. I find it difficult to fathom the depths of the hatred from the losing side.

It took better people than Mueller and his team 9-10 tries to get the teflon don convicted. Good thing he's not being tried here. You lot would have him hung by a noose hovering over the witness chair to answer questions.

18 minutes ago, mrwebb8825 said:

So, a LOT of wishful thinking and even 1 "tried and convicted" and his 1st trial doesn't even start for 3 months. I find it difficult to fathom the depths of the hatred from the losing side.

It took better people than Mueller and his team 9-10 tries to get the teflon don convicted. Good thing he's not being tried here. You lot would have him hung by a noose hovering over the witness chair to answer questions.

Manafort’s trial date is set for July 24.

 

Just one of the many things you got wrong.

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/25/politics/paul-manafort-trial-date-pushed-back/index.html

Wounder if he can send Trump a post card from jail?   ...Wish You Were Here!!! 

2 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Manafort’s trial date is set for July 24.

 

Just one of the many things you got wrong.

Perhaps you'd like to list the "many things" as the trial timeline is the only thing I alluded to other than you lot having tried and convicted him already.

36 minutes ago, mrwebb8825 said:

Perhaps you'd like to list the "many things" as the trial timeline is the only thing I alluded to other than you lot having tried and convicted him already.

To avoid the two of us arguing let’s see what the trial reveals.

 

I’m looking forward to it, I hope you are too.