Mueller Seeks Grand Jury Testimony from PR Execs Who Worked With Manafort

[DesertRat]

Source: NBC News

Special Counsel Robert Mueller issued grand jury subpoenas in recent days seeking testimony from public relations executives who worked on an international campaign organized by Paul Manafort, people directly familiar with the matter told NBC News.

This is the first public indication that Mueller's investigation is beginning to compel witness testimony before the grand jury — a significant milestone in an inquiry that is examining the conduct of President Donald Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, among others.

It is also further indication that Manafort, Trump's onetime campaign chairman, could be in serious legal jeopardy.

According to one executive whose firm received a subpoena, Mueller's team is closely examining the lobbying campaign, which ran between 2012 and 2014. Some of the firms involved in the campaign received subpoenas for documents weeks ago, the executive said, and now the Mueller team is seeking testimony.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mueller-seeks-grand-jury-testimony-pr-execs-who-worked-manafort-n796066

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[riversedge]

1. Love these Friday afternoon news dumps.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. What I get a kick out of with these stories, thank you by the way, is how if

any democrat alive did one one thousandth of what trump has already been proven to have done, there would be 200 separate investigations with budget totaling a billion dollars.

[byronius]

6. You are not exaggerating in any way.

They would scream for instant murder.

[BadgerMom]

10. Absolutely makes PBO's spotless record even more amazing.

When I read on comments threads that he acted criminally I'm just gobsmacked. These Yahoo!'s think there wouldn't have been action taken and inquiries begun if there had been anything that would have done damage to him? Their fantasies are that--fantasies.

[DesertRat]

8. That is the Truth!

[C_U_L8R]

3. Triangulation

There's no way these Trumpster deceptions can hold up to scrutiny.

[mpcamb]

12. The walls are closing in...

When what Mueller and company have is indisputable and any rational person can see:
that they conspired with a foreign power
that lied to the public at every turn
that Money went back and forth

and whatever R's who have a shred of self-respect have abandoned them

and they have less than 20% of the population supporting
he'll be impeached and Pence needs to go down with him.

[grantcart]

4. I just got off the phone with a 40ish junior executive in a company I deal with

I said something like "Trump will get squished by Mueller"

He said "Who is Mueller?"

[DesertRat]

9. Hopefully he find out very soon!

[BigmanPigman]

5. Manafort has not been working with the committees in Congress

and they may have to subpoena him. Mueller is getting close (he is on Flynn's ass too).

Good thing the hurricane will provide the fake prez with a new "distraction"

[Enoki33]

7. Will not be surprised if at the end Mueller finds Manafort

acted as a kind of paymaster for Putin's oligarchs.

[shenmue]

11. Here we go!

[VermontKevin]

13. Tad Devine. I said it first. Tad Devine and the Ukraine.

[sharedvalues]

14. Boom. Baby cannon time

Has Wittes noticed this story yet?

[DesertRat]

18. He posted this on twitter

Link to tweet

[bucolic_frolic]

15. This is really leaving no stone unturned

[bucolic_frolic]

16. If and when the hammer falls

I hope it falls in one massive blow with dozens hauled off for their day of reckoning

[orangecrush]

17. Stories like this

Keep hope alive.

Thanks for posting.

[FigTree]

19. I believe this is also, perhaps even mainly, a very good side move.

Whose strategic intent is to divert attention from the silent attack on the center.