Manafort Guilty! (Updated) 5 tax counts; 1 failure to report

[spooky3]

Foreign bank account; 2 more bank fraud counts.

Older stuff:

More deliberation could not help on remaining counts.

MSNBC reporting.

Ken Dilanian now saying judge will accept 8 verdicts and declare mistrial on other 10 IF they tell him more deliberation will not help.

Update—Ken says Judge WILL announce verdict today.

[SHRED]

1. The judge can do this?

[spooky3]

2. Per MSNBC, yes.

And I think that’s what a lot of DUers have said too.

[lame54]

4. Sounds routine to me

[NightWatcher]

3. MSNBC says Verdict is coming. Jury too deadlocked to move on 10

[honest.abe]

6. Good enough.

I will take 8 guilty verdicts.

[Jersey Devil]

5. Hate to say it but it looks like Andrea Mitchell was right

Not guilty on the 8. Makes sense to get the easiest charges out of the way.

[honest.abe]

8. No way.

Not possible a jury in Alexandria could unanimously agree to not guilty on any of the counts.

[spooky3]

9. Guilty of 5 tax fraud charges.

[honest.abe]

10. Yep.

[spooky3]

12. See--you were too pessimistic.

[Jersey Devil]

13. whew, glad to be wrong

I will take it. Plus they can torture Manafort some more with the threat of a new trial on the remaining 10 charges.

[spooky3]

14. And the DC trial...

[spooky3]

7. The upside of this is that prosecutors could choose to retry

Manafort on those counts.

Maybe they would get a better judge next time?

[murielm99]

11. Blagojevich

was retried. They simplified things, and Rod will be in jail for a loooong time.