Mueller confirms FBI raid of Manafort sought records from June 2016 Trump Tower meeting

[Miles Archer]

Special counsel Mueller confirms FBI raid of Paul Manafort sought records from June 2016 Trump Tower meeting

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/special-counsel-mueller-confirms-fbi-raid-paul-manafort-sought-records-june-2016-trump-tower-meeting/



Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office has confirmed that a July 26, 2017 warrant executed against Paul Manafort sought records from the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting attended by the onetime Donald Trump campaign chairman, Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, a Russian lawyer offering dirt on Hillary Clinton and multiple interested parties.

The filing comes as part of a 23-page memorandum in opposition drafted to rebuke Manafort’s motion to suppress evidence from that search.

According to the special counsel filing, the raid sought records on “11 specific categories of records,” including documents pertaining to that Trump Tower meeting, “any and all financial records for” Manafort and his co-defendant Rick Gates, “any and all federal and state tax documents,” correspondence with foreign banks or financial institutions and “evidence indicating Manafort’s state of mind as it relates to the crimes under investigation.

As USA Today’s Brad Heath notes, “Mueller’s office says all of the categories of information listed in the warrant, including info on the Trump Tower meeting, ‘must relate to the criminal offenses listed alongside those categories.’”

[BigmanPigman]

1. State tax records...means state crimes.

Those can't be pardoned. Which states have tax records from him? Illinois, Virginia, Maryland and NY?

[DeminPennswoods]

5. If the special counsel's office has tax records

for Manafort, I'll bet they have you-know-who's as well.

[BigmanPigman]

9. I read that he has had his tax records a long time ago.

I think that was probably one of the first things he obtained. I read that it is almost guaranteed that he has had them and they were pretty easy for him to obtain. Various news pundits have said that that is how investigations usually go and where you can get a lot of info to lead to other possible crimes.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Not necessarily a state crime. A state tax rtn may record a transaction that is a federal crime only

[BigmanPigman]

8. Does that mean he could be pardoned?

[Leghorn21]

2. Well, well, Mr. Mueller speaks, eh?? Whens the last time his office confirmed ANYthing??

Good to know!!

Also, hey, it seems to me that if there was ONE slimy meeting in trumps crumbling tower, then why weren’t there seven? Or fifteen?

Anyway, thanks for posting, Miles -

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Last time was about 7-10 days ago in a similar kind of filing. . . . nt

[thbobby]

3. When I read the post title

I just stared for about 2 seconds and began giggling. trump and his mafia klan will be so much easier to laugh at soon (I hope).

[Grammy23]

4. tRump might be just a wee bit nervous about this turn of events.

That is good, because when he gets nervous, he tweets and when he tweets he gives himself away as a guilty man. Every.Single.Time.