Manafort Plea Deal Includes Cooperation With Prosecutors
According to the plea deal, Manafort will spend a maximum of 10 years in federal prison.
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Justin Sanchez
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David Flores
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has agreed to co-operate with an investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the US election as part of a plea deal.
In court on Friday, he pleaded guilty to two criminal charges in the deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
The agreement avoids a second trial on money laundering and other charges.
Manafort was convicted last month on eight counts of fraud, bank fraud and failing to disclose banks accounts.
It was the first criminal trial arising from the justice department's investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
However, the charges only relate to Manafort's political consulting with pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine, largely pre-dating his role with the Trump campaign.
On Friday, he pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy against the US and one charge of conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Brody Hughes
The DOJ does not let defendants cooperate as to some people but not others. If a defendant cooperates, they have to provide the government with truthful and complete answers to any question and be willing to testify in any matter they are asked to be a witness in.
The DOJ does not let defendants cooperate as to some people but not others. If a defendant cooperates, they have to provide the government with truthful and complete answers to any question and be willing to testify in any matter they are asked to be a witness in.
Grayson Martin
Look at these retards. "Cooperate" doesn't mean what you think it does. You fell for a political trick. When your local news anchor says
>Bob, the chef at the local diner who is under investigation for murdering the waitress, is not cooperating with investigators.
What does that mean? It means Bob isn't doing a polygraph. Bob isn't handing over information that the investigators need. We have had ZERO reports of Manafort NOT cooperating. He's been cooperating. The political trick is that when you put it in a plea deal, the meaning of the word changes.. and Mueller is all too aware of this. Instead of
>Manafort is continuing to do everything asked of.
it now means
>Manafort has flipped on Trump.
You fell for it. Neck yourself.
Brody Russell
>Jow Forumsppets clinging to anything that gives even a little bit of doubt of the category 5 shitstorm that's going to hit to ease the minds of his fell sheep
Excerpt straight from Manafort's plea agreement:
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His cooperation is not limited to certain things. Anything the government asks, he must give. Including Trump.
Gabriel Gutierrez
Yup, Manafort has flipped.
>Manafort's plea agreement requires that he furnish any document, and testify in any proceeding, and testify fully, completely, and truthfully before any and all grand juries, and at any and all trials in other cases or court proceedings in the District or elsewhere.
Ethan Williams
Don't you (you) me nazi frog poster
Lucas Collins
Its over
Jaxon Peterson
Tony Podesta is fucked
Jacob Wilson
APOLOGIZE
Daniel Russell
>You fell for a political trick.
You sure don't understand a goddamn thing in the world.
Christopher Davis
Manafort is a deepstate snake, and he will bring the swap down with him.
Trump and Mueller are winning.
Wyatt Evans
>Trump and Mueller are winning.
You bet on the wrong horse, chief.
Owen Hill
All plea deals include cooperation, otherwise why would they get a deal? Mob style take your punishment or plead no contest to not be a rat.
Blake Young
Trump is fucked
emptywheel.net
Manafort is the only one who can incriminate trump and there's no way for Trump to Pardon Manafort because he can still be charged on a state level.
Ryder Butler
>agree to assist criminals in illegal prosecutions
>still get sentenced to life in prison
what a fucking retard
Zachary Fisher
so if you think the mueller investigation is some sort of deep state coup, why aren't you doing something about it? Why aren't you organizing right now to shut down the investigation? I'll tell you why, you know Trump is guilty deep down along with everyone else.
Gabriel Ortiz
>you know Trump is guilty deep down along with everyone else.
hahahhahahahahahahaha, what a fucking monumental fag
Christopher Bailey
you are a moron. He took the plea to get the farce over with. He knows a presidential pardon is coming.
Brayden Morris
Again, the lefty/pol/ claims a happening... Wheres the evidence...?
Please for the l8ve of god stop being so fucking gullible.
Oh wait your communists, you think government would ever make things fair and equitable for everybody.
Nathaniel Taylor
>Manafort is the only one who can incriminate trump and there's no way for Trump to Pardon Manafort because he can still be charged on a state level.
The delusion.....
Some guy who was associated with the campaign for a couple months knows everything..... do you realize how stupid you sound? Mana for has dirt on EVERY politician in Washington past and present. It’s over the swamp is getting drained, and it’s /ourguy/ Mueller who is doing it.
Dominic Sanchez
So Manafort goes to jail and John Kerry is hanged until dead for treason.
Cooper Taylor
For charges related to Ukrainian deals, not related to the election. Good try though. Even ABC news on the radio had to tack that in on the end of them tossing around manafort pleads guilty to special counsel.
You have a dude dragging out a fake investigation and catching people on bullshit deals that ALL of those people most like could be arrested for. They are just using them as a narrative to kee the "investigation" going so they can make it seem like Trump is a criminal to brainlet normies. Fuck out of here.