****BREAKING NEWS**** Former Trump Crime Family Member, Paul Manafort, To Turn himself In Today

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Paul Manafort, Who Once Ran Trump Campaign, Told to Surrender

By MATT APUZZO OCT. 30, 2017

WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort and his former business associate Rick Gates were told to surrender to federal authorities Monday morning, the first charges in a special counsel investigation, according to a person involved in the case.

The charges against Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, and Mr. Gates, a business associate of Mr. Manafort, were not immediately clear but represent a significant escalation in a special counsel investigation that has cast a shadow over the president’s first year in office.

Mr. Gates is a longtime protégé and junior partner of Mr. Manafort. His name appears on documents linked to companies that Mr. Manafort’s firm set up in Cyprus to receive payments from politicians and businesspeople in Eastern Europe, records reviewed by The New York Times show.

Mr. Manafort had been under investigation for violations of federal tax law, money laundering and whether he appropriately disclosed his foreign lobbying.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/us/politics/paul-manafort-indicted.html

I indicted Trump's consigliere just to watch him cry.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

1. Fox may have got a whiff of this as early morning talking point was

" if it is manafort more likely something years before the trump campaign "

[barbtries]

16. jeez

that they can just spread their fucking propaganda 24/7 is infuriating. i'm all for the free press but it's supposed to benefit the people, not crush them.

[Not Ruth]

2. Manafort, who was introduced to Trump by Jared/Ivanka, and who introduced Pence to Trump

[uncle ray]

10. not true, Dotard, Manafort and Stone were all buddies since watergate era.

[link:http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/04/paul_manafort_isn_t_a_gop_retread_he_s_made_a_career_of_reinventing_tyrants.html|

[Madam45for2923]

14. I made a new OP with this info & quoted you too

OP: Manafort, Trump, Stone go way back to 1980 & Sater to 2002 https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029768231

Your quote: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029768231#post4

[Roland99]

17. Wow. So Manafort has been a fixture in GOP campaigns for 40 years!!

[uncle ray]

19. well, i may have been off by a few years, but yeah, a looong damn time. nt.

[Roland99]

21. 40+ technically since he helped Gerald Ford in 1976

[BumRushDaShow]

3. NYT link

Paul Manafort, Who Once Ran Trump Campaign, Told to Surrender

By MATT APUZZO OCT. 30, 2017

WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort and his former business associate Rick Gates were told to surrender to federal authorities Monday morning, the first charges in a special counsel investigation, according to a person involved in the case.

The charges against Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, and Mr. Gates, a business associate of Mr. Manafort, were not immediately clear but represent a significant escalation in a special counsel investigation that has cast a shadow over the president’s first year in office.

Mr. Gates is a longtime protégé and junior partner of Mr. Manafort. His name appears on documents linked to companies that Mr. Manafort’s firm set up in Cyprus to receive payments from politicians and businesspeople in Eastern Europe, records reviewed by The New York Times show.

Mr. Manafort had been under investigation for violations of federal tax law, money laundering and whether he appropriately disclosed his foreign lobbying.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/us/politics/paul-manafort-indicted.html

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. TY

[Madam45for2923]

4. Manafort, Stone and Trump go way back! to the 1980's

http://billmoyers.com/story/trump-russia-timeline/

1980
Stone and Manafort Go Into Business

Roger Stone founds a lobbying practice with Paul Manafort, who is a childhood friend. Trump becomes one of Stone’s first clients. In the 1980s, Trump hires Manafort as his lawyer on gambling and real-estate issues. By 1988, Stone is one of Trump’s closest advisers.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Confirms why Stone had his twitter meltdown that lead to his account suspension.

[Madam45for2923]

13. I made an OP out of this info: Manafort, Trump, Stone go way back to 1980

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=9768231

[BumRushDaShow]

15. Thanks!

[Ohiya]

6. The dominoes are starting to fall!

[Takket]

7. Give these bastards immunity to roll drumpf!!!

[uncle ray]

11. NO!

these bastards are the very reason we have the POS as POTUS. i would rather see these fuckers die in prison and Dotard walk free as a message to the next ratfuckers who want to install someone. of course Dotard is dirty too, he ran a sloppy criminal enterprise. i don't think there is any NEED for anyone to flip.

[workinclasszero]

18. YES!

Before Commander Bone Spurs starts WW3 and gets hundreds of thousands of people killed.

[Stuart G]

8. Well, Well, Well....What's Up Doc?

Manafort, ...Former Chairman of Trump's Campaign..??? Do you think he had real close financial ties to Donald?...What do you think? Do you think Donald and Paul worked together to get money for the campaign?
What do you think?. Do you think Drump knew about illegal money obtained by Manafort?

................are you ready?...........Does a bear sh*t in the woods?

You run a campaign, the most important aspect is.....money...and the big boss has to know about how much you bring in and how much goes out..Get the picture?...

It ain't complicated..kinda simple..........

[Stuart G]

12. Be sure to read post number 4. and number 10...very important..!!!!

something about the Manafort & Trump going back a long way.....The two understood each other, and how Drump wanted to do business. So, if that is true (it is) , then bringing in illegal money would be approved by Drump. OH NO...that is against the law... Can you see it now?.."Mr Drump, did you know that your pal Paul Manafort was bringing in illegal money for your campaign??"..

Drump says, "I am very smart, but I don't remember nothing"..

[bucolic_frolic]

20. So a week before this year's election we get an indictment

to balance last year's Comey "emails! emails!" non-indictment plastering?

at this point be thankful for what you get

[bdamomma]

22. K&R

there should be more being indicted correct.

[Baitball Blogger]

23. What does this mean? We don't get a perp walk?