Section: TPM (USA)
NYT: DOJ Moves FARA Probe Into Obama White House Counsel To DC
Federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C. have taken over a criminal investigation into whether former Obama White House counsel Gregory Craig failed to register as a foreign agent after the case was moved from New York in January, the New York Times reported Monday. The decision to move the case from the Southern District of New York to D.C. comes...
Manafort Gets Another 43 Months In Prison In D.C. Sentencing
WASHINGTON–A federal judge in D.C. sentenced former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to spend an additional 43 months in prison, after a 47- month sentence in his Virginia case, as part of the unregistered foreign lobbying and money laundering case brought by special counsel Robert Mueller. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson technically...
Manafort Back In Court For Second Sentencing After VA’s Light Treatment
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort faces his second sentencing hearing in as many weeks, with a judge expected to tack on additional prison time beyond the roughly four-year punishment he has already received. Manafort, 69, faces up to 10 additional years in prison when he is sentenced Wednesday in Washington in...
Mueller: Manafort Shows ‘Lack Of Remorse’ For His Crimes
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has shown no remorse for his crimes and “poses a serious risk of recidivism,” prosecutors with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation argued in a Tuesday court filing in the Eastern District of Virginia. “The defendant blames everyone from the Special Counsel’s Office to his...
Manafort And Gates’ Contacts With Ukrainians, Russians During Campaign
Paul Manafort chaired the Trump campaign pro bono, so to speak, while quickly running out of liquidity after two Ukrainian oligarchs he worked with stopped sending him regular payments. House investigators are asking about Manafort and his protege Rick Gates’s contacts with those oligarchs during the campaign, as well as with Konstantin...
An Extremely Comprehensive Guide To House Judiciary’s Investigation
House Judiciary Committee chair Jerry Nadler issued a bevy of requests for documents to 81 Trump-affiliated people, corporations and institutions today, revealing an investigation that has the potential to be both wide-ranging and to delve deep into allegations of corruption in President Trump’s administration and his presidential campaign....
History’s Heroic Failures
I like to keep you up to date when I read a book I think is worth your time. I’m now reading Marc Morris’s The Norman Conquest, which is very good. I recommend it. At the simplest level it’s just a good read on a subject of immense historical importance and one with sufficient drama to allow a good writer to keep the reader...
Manafort Judge Refuses To Change Ruling On His Lies After New Evidence Surfaces
The judge overseeing former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s D.C. case won’t change her ruling that the 69-year old lied to investigators about his contacts with an alleged Russian spy, according to a Friday court order. The ruling came after an unsealed memo from the special counsel on Wednesday suggested that lobbyist Rick...
Now We’re Talking
Michael Cohen is going to back for more testimony on March 6th. On March 14th, Felix Sater will testify before the House Intelligence committee in open session. Josh Kovensky talked to Sater on the phone earlier today. This is, frankly, a critical hearing. To refresh your memory, here’s one look at Sater’s background I wrote way back...
Rick Gates Gave Mueller ‘New Evidence’ That May Be Favorable To Paul Manafort
A mysterious new issue has emerged in the D.C. case of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. A heavily redacted court filing unsealed in the case on Wednesday suggests that former Manafort associate Rick Gates revealed new evidence to the special counsel investigation that may help his convicted former boss in the sentencing phase of the...
