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BREAKING: Mueller says ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has attempted to tamper with a potential witness.

Lock. Him. Up.
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Mueller: "...probable cause to believe that Manafort has attempted to tamper with potential witness [by calling & texting them to influence their testimony] while on pretrial release and, accordingly, has violated the conditions of his release."
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!! Manafort & Person A [Konstantin Kilimnik] repeatedly contacted Persons D1 & D2 in an effort to secure materially false testimony re their Ukraine activities, which D1 & D2 both reported to the govt as an effort by Manafort to “suborn perjury.”
#Maddow bit.ly/2xHlw6S
5 days after Manafort's Superseding Indictment, Person A [Kilimnik]: "My friend P is trying to reach [Person D1] to brief him...our friends never lobbied in the US." 5 hours later, he switched to another encrypted app & sent similar messages to D2.
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Persons D1 & D2 were principals of a public-relations company [Company D] who acted as intermediaries btwn Manafort, Person A [Kilimnik], Rick Gates & the Hapsburg group. D1 & D2 both preserved their messages from Manafort & Person A and provided them to the government.
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The judge has set a June 15 hearing on bombshell allegations from Mueller team last night that Manafort repeatedly attempted to tamper with witnesses Persons D1 & D2, who reported Manafort to the government as attempting to “suborn perjury.”
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NEW: Person D1& D2 in Manafort filing are journalist Alan Friedman & former CNN business news producer Eckart Sager, principals of the now-defunct PR company FBC [Company D], who did “black ops” media work in Ukraine for Manafort.
by @joshgerstein #Maddow politi.co/2sMi0lV
ICYMI by @lukeharding1968: Starting in 2011, Manafort [w/ Person D1 & D2's help] ran a “black ops” media campaign for ex-Ukraine president Yanukovych featuring planted stories in the @WSJ & anonymous smears in Breitbart against Hillary Clinton.
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Mueller has filed a new superseding indictment against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort: obstruction of justice, conspiracy to obstruct, making false statements. Manafort associate, Russian citizen Konstantin Kilimnik, was also charged.
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ICYMI: After WH talks between Trump & Ukrainian Pres Poroshenko [set up by Cohen], Ukraine killed 4 investigations of Manafort & allowed his business partner/former Russian GRU officer Konstantin Kilimnik to flee to Russia, out of Mueller's reach.
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👆 THREAD: Manafort & now-INDICTED Kilimnik repeatedly contacted Persons D1 & D2 in an attempt to suborn perjury
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Sam Patten, co-founder of Konstantin Kilimnik's US lobbying firm has also worked closely w/ GOP lobbying firm BGR, which Ukraine hired just before they stopped cooperating w/ Mueller & allowed Kilimnik to flee to Russia.
#Maddow bit.ly/2rjW1C1
Longtime pal & lobbying partner of Konstantin Kilimnik [Russian GRU biz partner of Manafort & Gates], Sam Patten, played a central role in "Cambridge Analytica's ruthless bid to sway the vote in Nigeria."
via @carolecadwalla #Maddow bit.ly/2HxBJuX
From 2006-2017 [which includes Manafort’s time as Trump’s campaign chair & advisor], Paul Manafort, along w others [Trump campaign deputy chair Rick Gates & "ex" Russian GRU officer Konstantin Kilimnik], conspired to defraud the US…and to commit offenses against the US.
#Maddow
The FBI assessed that Konstantin Kilimnik had Russian intelligence ties in 2016 [when he communicated with his co conspirator Manafort re Deripaska & Trump campaign]. Mueller asked the court's permission to submit the evidence under seal.
by @FranklinFoer theatln.tc/2JuZGFd
After a Feb 2017 interview by @ChristopherJM [when Konstantin Kilimnik admits to staying in regular contact w/Manafort in 2016 after he joined the Trump campaign], KK blames the reporter for making him toxic: "I hope I'm able to get out of Ukraine"
#Maddow bit.ly/2LD0Lvk
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THREAD: In light of the Trump admin lifting sanctions on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska's companies, recall that Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, conspired with Deripaska during the 2016 campaign with help from Russian intelligence operative Konstantin Kilimnik.
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JUL 7, 2016: Manafort offers Deripaska private campaign briefings then meets with Kilimnik re the same on Aug 2.

AUG 11, 2016 email from Manafort's CPA: "Paul has indicated $2.4M in fees earned, but not yet received. Expected to be deposited Nov 2016 [post election?]."
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JUL 29, 2016 email from Russian intelligence operative Kilimnik to Manafort [days after Trump accepts GOP nomination]: "I met today with [Deripaska]. I have important messages from him to you. He asked me to go & brief you on our conversation."
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JUN 15, 2016
McCARTHY: There’s two people, I think, Putin pays – Rohrabacher and Trump...swear to God.

RYAN: This is an off the record [laughter] NO LEAKS...alright?! This is how we know we’re a real family.

SCALISE: That’s how you know that we’re tight.
-Never forget-
JUN 15, 2016, @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy to Paul Ryan, @SteveScalise, and other GOP: "There’s...there’s two people, I think, Putin pays. Rohrabacher and Trump...swear to God."

@Evan_McMullin was there and confirmed it was not a joke.
wapo.st/2pY7eFF
Per @Evan_McMullin: One senior GOP leader [that's you, @GOPLeader!] dolefully informed his peers that he thought Trump was on the Kremlin’s payroll and had been compromised by Russian intelligence. Other GOP leaders were surprised but did not dispute him.
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CORRECTION: Manafort told Kilimnik to pass TRUMP polling data not to Deripaska but to Ukrainian oligarchs Rinat Akhmetov & Serhiy Lyovochkin, who funneled $50K to Trump's inaugural & is business partner to Dmytro Firtash [top-tier comrade of Russian mob boss Mogilevich].
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FYI: Rick Gates testified that between 2010-2013, former Yanukovych CoS Serhiy Lyovochkin funneled $42M to Paul Manafort. At the time, Lyovochkin was business partner to Dmytro Firtash [top-tier comrade of Russian mob boss, Semion Mogilevich].
#Maddow kyivpost.com/ukraine-politi…
In his plea deal, Sam Patten, US business partner of Konstantin Kilimnik [Russian GRU associate of Manafort & Gates] who worked for Cambridge Analytica in 2014, said a Ukranian oligarch [Serhiy Lyovochkin] funneled $50K into Trump's inaugural fund.
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This morning, Mueller's office filed a superseding criminal information against ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Prosecutors typically use this type of filing when they expect the defendant to plead guilty.
It's totally normal for prosecutors to file a criminal information when someone is going to plead. But this filing is very unusual. It's a "speaking" information - 37 pages long with multiple exhibits. That's not something you see often.
I've never, ever seen a felony information that includes exhibits. This one has almost 40 pages of them.
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🚨 MUELLER SAYS MANAFORT TRIED TO TAMPER WITH POTENTIAL WITNESSES (@business)
#BREAKING: U.S. Special Counsel Mueller says ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has attempted to tamper with potential witness - court filing (@Reuters)
MORE: Mueller asks judge to revoke or revise Manafort's pretrial release (@Reuters)
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Mueller's investigators are *still* getting search warrants on Manafort. This year, it requested a warrant for information on five AT&T telephone numbers.
News: Mueller's office obtained search warrants on ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort as recently as March "relating to ongoing investigations that are not the subject of either of the current prosecutions involving Manafort."
Here's a partial list of the warrants that DOJ filed as an exhibit tonight. They're all still sealed.
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Mueller was authorized by DOJ to investigate Manafort ties to Russian government. Memo from Rosenstein, written in August 2017 revealed late Monday in court filings, detailed by Mueller team with why Manafort case should not be dismissed by Judge Berman.
cnn.com/2018/04/03/pol…
‘The Rob Rosenstein Memo’
to Robert Mueller, August 2017, clearing the way for the Special Counsel to investigate Paul Manafort’s ties with the Russian government. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4429…
The United States of America, by and through Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III, files this response to defendant Paul J. Manafort, Jr.’s motion (Doc. 235) to dismiss the superseding indictment. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4429…
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