"He is so in debt": Paul Manafort fights use of financial records at trial

[pnwmom]

Source: WA Post

Having lost his fight to have the bank- and tax-fraud case against him thrown out of federal court, Paul Manafort on Friday sought to have the financial records found in his condominium and storage unit tossed.

Those records were obtained through search warrants, partially released this week, that detail the extent to which the former lobbyist and Trump campaign chairman found himself in debt and dependent on money from pro-Russian interests.

His attorneys are asking U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III, who ruled that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's case against Manafort can go to trial next month, to find that the searches were unconstitutional. An employee did not have authority to let agents into his storage unit and they were given too much leeway to seize items at his condo, he argued.


FBI Special Agent Jeff Pfeiffer testified Friday in an Alexandria, Va., federal court that he "may have learned" about the storage unit from a meeting FBI agents and Justice Department prosecutors held with reporters from the Associated Press in April 2017.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/he-is-so-in-debt-paul-manafort-fights-use-of-financial-records-at-trial/2018/06/29/0f7f6a38-7af1-11e8-93cc-6d3beccdd7a3_story.html?utm_term=.b14d785d6392

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Earlier, Judge Amy Berman Jackson had denied a motion to exclude the storage locker evidence at the DC trial.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/21/judge-rejects-bid-by-paul-manafort-to-supress-seized-evidence.html

The bad news just keeps on coming for former Trump campaign boss Paul Manafort.

A federal judge in Washington on Thursday rejected Manafort's request to bar as evidence business records seized by the FBI from a self-storage unit he was using in Virginia a day after agents got access to the unit from Manafort's assistant on May 27, 2017.

[GusBob]

1. So he was in debt and Putin helped him out, sounds familiar

Who else was in debt and got Russian money? Hmmm

[Eyeball_Kid]

8. Being 10 million in debt to a Russian mobster with no way to pay it back means

that Paulie Walnuts WILL pay the debt whether he has the money or not. And the price will be heavier than 10 million. Paulie's only chance of living beyond his now-shortened life expectancy is to turn on Trumpy and enter into a witness protection program. Even then, he'll be hunted and marked.

[lagomorph777]

9. Yup - I've been saying Mueller needs to offer FWP; that's all Manafort wants at this point.

To stay alive. That's why he's chosen to go to jail.

[turbinetree]

2. If one judge didn't toss the claim.....more than likely this one will not also...grab the soap Paul

and watch your back in your VIP cell......................your screwed dude...................


"A federal judge in Washington on Thursday rejected Manafort's request to bar as evidence business records seized by the FBI from a self-storage unit he was using in Virginia a day after agents got access to the unit from Manafort's assistant on May 27, 2017."

[dem4decades]

3. Evidence is so unfair.

[turbinetree]

4. To a traitor.................

[lagomorph777]

10. Truth is biased against Republicans.

Hate it when that happens.

[paleotn]

5. Motion denied.

Now, do you have anything else that's...well...legitimate? No? I didn't think so.

[Mr. Ected]

6. All of this is fake news, I tell you

#fakeruling
#fakesolitaryconfinement
#faketrial
#fakelifeinprisonnochanceforparole


Yep, the rest of Paulie's life will be fake.
Wonder if he concurs?

[Dopers_Greed]

7. How long until a Trump judge tosses all charges?

[FakeNoose]

12. That will never happen

[BumRushDaShow]

11. From the OP article

The court documents also detail more of Manafort’s spending, including $49,000 to stay with his wife at a villa in Italy and $21,000 for a limited-edition titanium “Royal Way” watch from the luxury men’s store House of Bijan.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/he-is-so-in-debt-paul-manafort-fights-use-of-financial-records-at-trial/2018/06/29/0f7f6a38-7af1-11e8-93cc-6d3beccdd7a3_story.html?utm_term=.102d1da5df1c

[FakeNoose]

13. When he was arrested they froze his assets in the US

Manafort is a serious flight-risk and I still can't believe he got the house-arrest deal. Well that's over now because he violated the agreement when he tried to tamper with the witnesses. In any case, Manafort has $ millions in cash and property in other countries but he can't get his hands on it. He owns at least 4 expensive properties in the US and they can't be sold (frozen) so he's out of dough and very low on options.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. "Manafort is a serious flight-risk and I still can't believe he got the house-arrest deal."

Because...White collar crime.... although given his international associations and constant travel, he definitely would have been a flight risk, which is why they made him wear ankle bracelets.