Section: US & Canada
Manafort, Gates Plead Not Guilty To All Counts In Alleged Money Laundering Scheme
Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, former aides to the Donald Trump campaign, pleaded not guilty on Monday to all 12 counts handed down against them late last week in an indictment that alleged a vast money-laundering scheme. Manafort and Gates were indicted on a wide range of charges, including conspiracy to launder money, acting as an unregistered...
A Guide to Understanding the Manafort Indictment
For once, the Twitter speculation was mainly correct. When news broke Friday night that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had obtained an indictment, the smart money pegged former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. After all, the FBI had raided Manafort’s home and widespread reporting indicated that he had complex and lucrative dealings...
Tony Podesta stepping down from lobbying giant amid Mueller probe
Democratic power lobbyist Tony Podesta, founder of the Podesta Group, is stepping down from the firm that bears his name after coming under investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller.Podesta announced his decision during a firm-wide meeting Monday morning and is alerting clients of his impending departure. Podesta is handing over full...
Mueller: Trump Campaign Adviser George Papadopoulos Hunted for “Dirt” in “Thousands of Emails”
A former adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign secretly pled guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with representatives of the Russian government during the campaign. According to court documents unsealed Monday, George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser on Trump’s campaign, confessed to repeatedly attempting to...
It sure looks like there was collusion between the Trump operation and Russia
Look at the whole story and tell me this isn’t suspicious. Two things are true about the indictments unsealed by special counsel Bob Mueller Monday: They don’t provide a “smoking gun” proving collusion between Donald Trump’s operation and Russia. They make it almost impossible to believe that there wasn’t collusion between...
Indictments in Mueller-Led Probe Expected
A grand jury convened by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III has indicted an unidentified person on unspecified charges in Mueller’s off-the-rails investigation into the Trump campaign’s hypothesized electoral collusion with Russia, according to media reports. The indictment could be unsealed as soon as today. Three congressional...
What Will Mueller Do?
Washington is waking up on Monday waiting to see who will be arrested. Multiple news outlets reported Friday night that Special Counsel Robert Mueller obtained a sealed indictment from a federal grand jury in the nation’s capital—the first one of the Russia investigation. But like so many other aspects of Mueller’s probe, the who,...
Saakashvili Says Ukrainian Government Must Meet Protesters’ Demands
Hundreds of protesters have joined a rally organized outside the Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv by the Movement of New Forces, the political party led by Mikheil Saakashvili. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Communism, Memory and ‘Forgetting’
Writing in the New York Times, Bret Stephens takes aim at the curious mix of indulgence, amnesia and ignorance that envelops the subject of Communism. How many know the name of Lazar Kaganovich, one of Stalin’s principal henchmen in the [genocidal Ukrainian] famine [of 1932/33]? What about other chapters large and small in the history of...
Saakashvili: Ukrainian Government Must Heed Our Demands
Hundreds of protesters joined a rally organized outside the Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv on October 29 by the New Forces Movement, a novice political group led by Mikheil Saakashvili. The former Georgian president and ex-governor of Ukraine’s Odesa Oblast was stripped of Ukrainian citizenship in June 2017 in a move he is currently...
