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#ManafortTrial Day 9 (sorry for delay)

✅Prosecution filing asks Judge Ellis to correct improper statement.

✅Docs & testimony suggest Federal Savings Bank chairman approved $16M in loans to secure a job in Trump admin.

✅D.C. filing confirms Gates’ ongoing cooperation.

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#ManafortTrial Day 9 cont.

Fed. Savings Bank Senior VP Raico’s testimony:

✅Loan process was unusually fast.

✅Bank chairman Steve Calk’s involvement unlike any other loan.

✅Loans granted on Manafort’s terms, even after bank’s president suggested ending negotiations.

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#ManafortTrial Day 9 cont.

Raico’s testimony:

✅Calk let Manafort know he wanted Trump admin role & Manafort asked for Calk’s resume.

✅11/11/2016- call from Calk: “[I’m possibly] up for some role in [Trump admin. Can you ask Manafort?]”

✅11/16/2016- $9.5M loan closed.

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#ManafortTrial Day 9 cont.

Court transcript:

✅Prosecutors allege Calk has “other” criminal liability aside from this bank fraud.”

✅”[Loan didn’t] go through normal process because Mr. Calk was expediting the loan & pushing it through notwithstanding the red flags.”

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#ManafortTrial Day 9 cont.

✅A senior NY Yankees director testified to records that suggest Manafort lied to the bank when he said the season tickets belong to Gates.

✅A Fed. Savings Bank exec testified that Manafort signed docs re: his legal obligations of disclosure.

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