Trump

[swchandler]

Where's the actual proof that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower? Did I miss something?

[nw30]

[boggsman1]

[mac]

[MalibuGuru]

[real-human]

[real-human]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/five-questions-about-the-manafort-investigation/540270/

[MalibuGuru]

When the government wants to convict you of a crime, they will do anything with all the resources available to the government, justice be damned! Mueller now reaching back 11 years to find something indictable on Mamaforth. Do you think this is what his appointment to investigate 'Russia collusion' had in mind or is Mueller, representing 'the deep state' is just trying to find anything to hit a Trump associate with?
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team is reaching back more than a decade in its investigation of Paul Manafort, a sign of the pressure Mueller is placing on President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman. The FBI's warrant for a July search of Manafort's Alexandria, Virginia, home said the investigation centered on possible crimes committed as far back as January 2006, according to a source briefed on the investigation The broad time frame is the latest indication that Mueller's team is going well beyond Russian meddling during the campaign as part of its investigation of Trump campaign associates. Manafort, who has been the subject of an FBI investigation for three years, has emerged as a focal point for Mueller. The search, an unusually hard-nosed tactic in a probe that centers on possible tax and financial crimes, began before dawn as Manafort and his wife lay in bed, according to sources briefed on the matter.
FBI agents entered with guns drawn and insisted on searching Kathleen Manafort for weapons, a standard part of FBI searches but a jarring event for the Manaforts, the sources said.
Mueller's team has warned Manafort that they are working to charge him with possible tax and financial crimes, the sources said, an indication the investigation could be in an advanced stage.
Justice Department prosecutors concluded last year that there wasn't enough evidence to bring charges against Manafort or any of the other US subjects in the Ukraine probe, according to sources briefed on the investigation. A spokesman for the special counsel declined to comment. Mueller's team could be facing a deadline if they want to bring charges arising from older tax returns: The six-year statute of limitations for Manafort's taxes filed in 2011 expires October 15. They already may be too late for the years prior to 2011. But the government could have more time depending on the exact nature of the charges that it wants to bring. The period mentioned in the search warrant covers much of the decade that Manafort worked as a consultant for Ukraine's former ruling party. It's that work, which extended beyond the ouster of the president, Viktor Yanukovych, amid street protests in 2014, that prompted the FBI's interest in Manafort. Yanukovych's Party of Regions was accused of corruption and the FBI sought to learn whether the American consultants hired by the Ukrainian party, which also included Mercury LLC and the Podesta Group, were involved. The Justice Department probe also looked into whether the US firms violated the federal law that requires registration under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

[boggsman1]

Steve...do we need to list the thousands of Americans that died fighting communism, and other factions of foreign governments? Paul Manafort made a career being a political in-between for foreign politicians looking to curry favor with the US. His most lucrative job was for the Ukraine. AND , he just happened to be Trumps campaign chair for 6 months....as dirty as it gets , if one believes that Russian assistance was part of DJT's ticket to the White House.

[real-human]