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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsManafort Left Paper Trail Because He Couldn't Figure Out How to Convert PDFs to Word Files
Back in October, a grand jury indictment charged Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates with a variety of crimes, including conspiring to defraud the United States. On Thursday, special counsel Robert Mueller filed a new indictment against the pair, substantially expanding the charges. As one former federal prosecutor told the Washington Post, Manafort and Gates methods appear to have been extensive and bold and greedy with a capital G, but not all that sophisticated.
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So heres the essence of what went wrong for Manafort and Gates, according to Muellers investigation: Manafort allegedly wanted to falsify his companys income, but he couldnt figure out how to edit the PDF. He therefore had Gates turn it into a Microsoft Word document for him, which led the two to bounce the documents back-and-forth over email. As attorney and blogger Susan Simpson notes on Twitter, Manaforts inability to complete a basic task on his own seems to have effectively created an incriminating paper trail.
https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/paul-manafort-couldnt-convert-pdfs-to-word-documents.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru
Docreed2003
(16,866 posts)lapfog_1
(29,213 posts)Open a file in Acrobat.
Click on the Export PDF tool in the right pane.
Choose Microsoft Word as your export format, and then choose Word Document.
Click Export. ...
Name the Word file and save it in a desired location.
all legal with no email trail.
perform illegal edit
publish as .pdf
destroy computer and disk drive
nobody else involved
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)Relatedly, the one thing Trump has done wisely is to never use a computer. He has never written or received an email, (since he doesn't have an account). Accordingly, there's nothing that links to him. This is probably why he talks with people one-on-one when he wants to pressure them, mob-style.
Hope Hicks, on the other hand, probably has a lot of interesting emails and text messages the Robert Mueller has read or will read.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)I'm betting they don't know that BCC can be read by going into the server....
eppur_se_muova
(36,274 posts)45 bragged about it, but only Mueller actually did it.