BREAKING***Manafort bail deal cancelled....

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Manafort worked on op-ed with Russian while out on bail, prosecutors say

Washington (CNN)Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was ghostwriting an op-ed while out on bail last month with a Russian who has ties to the Russian intelligence service, Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Muller's team said Monday.

In a new filing Monday afternoon, Mueller's investigators said Manafort was working on an editorial in English as late as last Thursday and that it related to his political work for Ukraine, which factored into his money-laundering and foreign lobbying criminal charges.

The filing asks for the court to revisit a bail agreement Mueller's office and Manafort's lawyers made jointly last week. The court had not yet approved a change to his $10 million unsecured bail and house arrest.

"Even if the ghostwritten op-ed were entirely accurate, fair, and balanced, it would be a violation of this Court's November 8 Order if it had been published," prosecutors wrote. "The editorial clearly was undertaken to influence the public's opinion of defendant Manafort, or else there would be no reason to seek its publication (much less for Manafort and his long-time associate to ghostwrite it in another's name)."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/04/politics/manafort-bail-russian-intelligence/index.html

[MontanaMama]

1. On MSNBC now.

Ari Melber has Richard Painter on now

[SCantiGOP]

50. Headline is misleading

Judge still has to rule on Mueller's request to cancel the bail deal. OP needs to be corrected for accuracy.

[MontanaMama]

52. Not my headline...

Ari was talking about the Mueller request...

[SCantiGOP]

54. No, sorry for the confusion

I was referring to the headline in the Original Post.

[Corgigal]

2. Guess his fueled up private jet

can go back to the hanger. Me think a Mueller was playing a Lucy football to Charlie Brown.

Gonna talk now? Bad Boy.

[FakeNoose]

45. Only one guy was getting the deal - Flynn beat Manafort and got it

So - no deal for Manafort. Mueller knows a trick or two.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Could there be anyone more stupid, I mean other

than the original fucking moron of course?

[Irish_Dem]

8. To repeat another post, it is like Barney Fife goes to Wash DC. nt

[watoos]

30. I was going to say

that they are like the keystone cops, but honestly, they are like Monty Python's crack suicide squad.

[Irish_Dem]

31. Yep. nt

[Stuart G]

42. I might add,,,, Barney is brilliant compared to some of these morons.

[Irish_Dem]

48. Sad but true. nt

[niyad]

66. no, don't insult barney. he may have been inept, but he was a decent human being.

[Irish_Dem]

67. Good point, he was not evil nt

[Alice11111]

39. I think someone has him by the ⚽️🏀, and he had to do it.

That's why he put up all of his assets and took such risk.
I guess if it was never signed, he may not have to forfeit. I think any judge with a backbone, most, would take something though...at least one of the condos.


I think Mueller probably gave him a little rope to hang himself...taking off the ankle tracking band.

[getagrip_already]

51. well, his lawyer did say he was no jason bourne...

of course, he didn't say anything about maxwell smart.

[BigmanPigman]

53. He probably thinks he can tweet with his shoe phone.

I wonder if they can "tap" that too.

[Volaris]

57. It makes you wonder if they put the Russian Mob Cash IN the washing machine..

At the laundry service at fucking Quantico...

If only TOO STUPID to understand the Crime were a legal defense...maybe soon in Idiocracy, it will be.

[C Moon]

69. That's probably why Putin chose Trump, but it's backfiring on the bastard.

[Big_K]

4. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

LOCK HIM UP!

I love that MSNBC is saying Mueller is "working" with someone who has ties to the Russian Intel service.

It oughta scare everyone in the White House.

[Botany]

5. Lock him up

n/t

And make sure his ankle monitor is working too.

[Irish_Dem]

6. They are all going to do a massive PR campaign. That is all they have at this point. nt

[dalton99a]

7. His love for Russia was overwhelming

[Hoosier]

29. on Putin's list

I figured that he'd be found dead by Thanksgiving.
That guy is up to his ass with Putin's boys. And these guys are not f-ing around.

[nolabear]

9. The hubris is bloody astounding. And him getting bail revoked is really satisfying.

[DangerousUrNot]

10. What the hell was he thinking?

[MontanaMama]

33. That he and his crowd

are above the law. Hubris on a scale that we have never seen. It is beyond the pale.

[Volaris]

58. Or, that he's more scared of the Russian MobState than he is of the FBI...

Although, if that were true, he'd have asked Mueller to lock his ass under guard in Fox and Scully's old office...

[orangecrush]

64. THIS!!!

[mvd]

11. Wow, who do these people think they are?

Send him right to jail..

[Hassin Bin Sober]

12. Lock him up!!!!

[BannonsLiver]

13. WHAt is it with this slime and Russia?

They just can’t quit each other.

[malaise]

20. MONEY n/t

[bdamomma]

68. a lot of money

and now they are stealing from the Middle Class.

Damn I hate these people, the Senate big time. McConnell and the rest of them are in the back pockets of corporations and lobbyists.

[Squinch]

14. It's a sickness. They can't help themselves.

[NCjack]

65. Maybe they are playing for more than 50% of the oil in the world. The biggest reason

that #45 will wreck USA's move toward electric powered vehicles.

[Maven]

15. Put this fucking guy in jail.

Enough. These people are international criminals who think that rules and consequences don't apply to them. That they are outside the system and there is always an angle to play. Put them behind bars until it sinks in.

[Alice11111]

40. Yes. International mobsters, including the Trump clan.

[0rganism]

16. is it possible to be addicted to Russians?

cos this seems like addictive behavior...

[dchill]

38. They're all amoral. Their addiction is to Russian money.

Once they've taken it, they're hooked, in more ways than one.

[marble falls]

17. Jail him.

[malaise]

18. They don't give a flying fuck do they

LOCK THEM UP!

[Thrill]

19. Flynn told he was writing it lol

[uponit7771]

21. Damn !!! Lock him up because he's really stupid

[SHRED]

22. Where does it say the bail deal was cancelled?

[pansypoo53219]

46. does he forfeit his bail too?

[ollie10]

23. Break bail, then you WILL go to jail

Sorta poetic

[NastyRiffraff]

24. They'll be adding additional charges

for pure stupidity.

[bluestarone]

25. i just asked about this today!! and i'm

super happy he's this fucking dumb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if he broke bail agreement why don't he lose everything he put up?

[marylandblue]

26. They must be blackmailing him

Why else would he do something so stupid and worthless?

[NanceGreggs]

27. Well, it's like they say on the TV cop shows ...

... when criminals know the law is onto them, they start making sloppy mistakes.

[Kirk Lover]

28. He's bankrolled by Russians. He can't stay away. LOCK HIS COIFED JUST FOR MEN ASS UP.

[Thrill]

32. Hes one of those rich dudes that thinks hes smarter

Than everyone including law enforcement

[madinmaryland]

34. These fuckers think they are a TV show like Blacklist. Do whatever and go wherever without

any ramifications.

LOCK THEM UP!

[Stonepounder]

35. Totally misleading headline!

The bail deal, at this point, has NOT been cancelled. Muller has requested that the bail deal be cancelled. The judge has not yet ruled/responded.

[SCantiGOP]

49. I wondered when someone would point this out

The story is dramatic enough; no need for the OP to use a misleading headline that is not accurate.

[mcar]

36. They are drowning in arrogance and stupidity

[George II]

37. Wish it were true, and it will be true, but the bail deal is technically still in effect....

....and will be reviewed by the judge in a week.

Most likely at that time it will be revoked. Let's hope the judge is pissed off enough to strengthen the terms of his home confinement.

[pnwmom]

41. What about this?

The filing asks for the court to revisit a bail agreement Mueller's office and Manafort's lawyers made jointly last week. The court had not yet approved a change to his $10 million unsecured bail and house arrest.

I don't care how much bail he puts up. I want him to stay under house arrest (or better yet, in pre-trial detention.) (Or better yet, some dungeon.)

[gay texan]

43. Hmm this is interesting

Just pure speculation on my part but I have to wonder if his life is in danger from a Russian hit man

[LAS14]

44. Why does the subject line say "cancelled," when the story says...

... it will be looked at on Dec 11? Am I misreading something???

[marylandblue]

55. Looks like it's postponed until a hearing on the Dec 11

[Xolodno]

47. To be fair....

...most criminals are very, very careful on their first few crimes. Eventually what gets them is, they get sloppy and think they won't get caught and if they do, will be let off easy. Something tells me, he's got quite a resume in crime.

[TrollBuster9090]

56. Manafort drives to the editorial office in his Ford Bronco to submit the Op/Ed piece...

[Hekate]

59. Hot diggity!

[IronLionZion]

60. Did someone pay Manafort to be the fall guy? no one can be that stupid, right?

[Nitram]

61. These guys just can't help themselves. They all think theyare immune. Bulletproof.

Hubris writ large.

[jb5150]

62. I wouldn't be suprised if

someone sprinkles a little polonium on his corn flakes ..

[dlk]

63. Manafort's Hubris Will Be His Downfall