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Meanwhile, in Manafort-land: The judge just entered an order indicating Mueller's office is submitting its memo to the court about Manafort's alleged plea breach under seal, and the judge ordered the redacted version be filed publicly
The Manafort filing has been filed, but PACER appears to be having problems. Stand by.
NEW: Mueller's office says former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort lied about his repeated contacts with Trump administration officials, including several contacts in 2018 — that's just one of several subjects the govt says Manafort lied about buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Special counsel prosecutors: "Manafort told multiple discernible lies — these were not instances of mere memory lapses." buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Here's what Mueller's office says Paul Manafort lied about:
- Contacts with Trump administration officials
- Interactions with Konstantin Kilimnik
- Something related to "Another DOJ Investigation"
- A $125K payment to an unnamed firm he worked with
buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Much of today's Manafort filing is redacted. Prosecutors had asked to keep under seal information that relates to "pending investigations or uncharged persons" buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the Manafort filing "says absolutely nothing about the President" — this is true of the unredacted sections we currently can see buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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Some fireworks in court this morning as a judge criticized the lawyer representing Concord Management & Consulting in the special counsel Russian troll farm case for his language and harsh words about Mueller's office in filings — "unprofessional, inappropriate, and ineffective"
The judge told attorney Eric Dubelier that his strategy was "ineffective" and that his approach to filings — including pop culture quotes (see: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5676…) and accusing Mueller's office basically of lawlessness — was "undermining your credibility in this courthouse"
"Knock it off," Judge Dabney Friedrich told Dubelier. This then led to a heated exchange where Dubelier said he needed to consult his client since the judge had accused of unprofessional conduct, and now there might be bias from the judge. There's no bias, the judge replied.
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New: This morning the DC Circuit vacated an injunction that had blocked the Trump admin's ban on transgender military service — this doesn't change the status quo, since injunctions issued by other courts still stand, but it's still noteworthy assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5674…
This is the first win for the administration in litigation over the transgender military service policy — judges in DC, WA, and CA issued injunctions. The cases went up on appeal, but DOJ then petitioned SCOTUS before the circuits ruled, which was unusual: buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
SCOTUS hasn't weighed in yet, and now in the meantime the DC Circuit has issued a ruling. It's a per curiam judgment, and not "published," which means it's not precedent for the circuit and no one judge on the panel is the named author, it's just on behalf of the court
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Remember how Jerome Corsi filed a civil lawsuit against Robert Mueller, claiming various violations of his rights? A judge today denied Corsi's bid to have the case assigned to the same judge who ruled against the NSA bulk surveillance program a few years ago, Judge Richard Leon
Corsi is represented by Larry Klayman, who argued the NSA case before Leon. Normally cases are randomly assigned, unless they're related to another case. Klayman today argued the cases were related, since Corsi claims he's been illegally surveiled by the special counsel's office
But "related" has specific meanings under the court rules. For cases that have been dismissed at the district court level, as Klayman's NSA cases were (he's on appeal), Corsi's case would need to involve the same parties and subject to be "related"
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1/ On Michael Cohen’s upcoming federal sentencing & James McCord’s role in #Watergate—
2/ #MichaelCohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, pleaded guilty in August to eight federal crimes, two related to Trump’s campaign finances & six related to Cohen’s personal finances.
3/ In pleading guilty to the campaign finance crimes, Cohen implicated President Trump in hush money payments to two women in 2016. Cohen & Trump worked together during his presidential campaign, Cohen told the Court, to conceal affairs that the women had with Trump.
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"[Manafort] He is now in a far worse position than if he had never elected to cooperate, or if he had followed through on his agreement." #WednesdayWisdom #Mueller
nytimes.com/2018/11/27/opi…
2/"How to make sense of the bizarre turn of events involving Paul Manafort? Two months ago, he struck a plea deal with Robert Mueller, the special counsel — he pleaded guilty but agreed to provide full and truthful information in exchange for a more lenient sentence.
3/"But according to a filing by Mr. Mueller’s team on Monday, Mr. Manafort lied to them repeatedly, and after multiple warnings. He is now in a far worse position than if he had never elected to cooperate, or if he had followed through on his agreement. What was he thinking?
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Going to do a (short?) THREAD on the #Manafort Superceding Criminal Information. Need to tease out some info that will come up re media involvement and Congressional Rs 😉

assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4883…
First, just tagging a Manafort shell co that I hadn't heard mentioned before, yet the date/loc interests me: Pompolo Limited created 4/13, UK (pg 6):

E.g., this is the first shell co that Manafort reg'd in the UK. WHY❓ 🧐
Mueller tells us Manafort used the shell cos to hide payments he received from Ukraine authorities:
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#Manafort charging document for today's guilty plea includes details of his planting disinformation in US press to smear political rivals of his pro-Russia clients in Ukraine. Eg "Plant some stink on Tymo"—painting a female rival as a criminal who paid for murder. Sound familiar?
Manafort had used the same propaganda smear tactics in Ukraine that Trump rolled out in his campaign for president in 2016. Manafort not only had Tymo soliciting murder. He pushed tribal divisions, using "Obama Jews" & anti-Semitism to tarnish her. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4883…
#Manafort manipulated the media with disinformation and then used those planted news stories to manipulate US govt: "I have someone pushing it on the NY Post. Bada bing bada boom…The Jewish community will take this out on Obama on election day if he does nothing.”
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🛑BREAKING🛑

Following his #indictment of #Russians🇷🇺for social media trolling and illegal-ad-buying, #Mueller is assembling a CRIMINAL CHARGES against Russians who HACKED and LEAKED private info designed to hurt Democrats in the election‼️ 1/

nbcnews.com/politics/2016-…
Mueller's newest charges are expected to rely heavily on secret intelligence gathered by the CIA, FBI, NSA and Homeland Security (DHS).😎 2/

#FVEY
#TrumpRussia
Potential charges include violations of statutes on #conspiracy, election law, and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). One source said the charges are not imminent, but other knowledgeable sources said they are expected in the next few weeks or months.🤗 3/

#TrumpRussia
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1.Zainab Ahmed
Ahmed is an expert in prosecuting terrorism and organized crime, Zainab Ahmad previously served as an assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of New York. She joined #TeamMueller in the summer of 2017.
1a)Ahmad has worked on the case of Flynn: She was one of two prosecutors who signed Flynn’s charging documents and was also in court for Flynn’s guilty plea in December 2017.

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