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Mueller's office says the activities of Manafort's associates Konstantin Kilimnik go "very much to the heart of what the Special Counsel's Office is investigating." They're looking at at 2016 meeting between the two, and say Kilimnik had a relationship with Russian intelligence.
Mueller's office has focused on a 2016 meeting between Paul Manafort, then Trump's campaign chairman, and Konstantin Kilimnik, who the FBI concluded is tied to Russian intelligence.

"That meeting and what happened at that meeting is of significance to the special counsel."
Mueller's office said Rick Gates also attended the August 2016 meeting. They "took the precaution ... of leaving separately."
"This was a way of getting cash."
Mueller's office also says Paul Manafort was doing political work on behalf of a Ukrainian in 2018. He was either on house arrest or in jail for the entire year.
Mueller's office they think one of the reasons Manafort lied to them after first promising to cooperate could have been to "augment his chances for a pardon."
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Brad Heath
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To be fair, the argument that President Trump doesn't know what he's talking about is one his administration has made repeatedly (and successfully) in federal court.
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We're on the opposite side of one of those cases, so I suppose we're constrained to say that we disagree.
(It seems to me to be an unusual state of affairs when @usatoday is the one trying to persuade a court that the president should be presumed to know what he's talking about, and the Justice Department is saying he doesn't.)
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Brad Heath
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NEW: President Trump has named more members of his private clubs to top posts in his administration. Presidents traditionally hired friends and allies; Trump is the first modern president to award government jobs to his customers.
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Brad Heath
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18 U.S.C. § 875(d) makes it a federal crime to send an interstate communication with the extent to extort a thing of value from someone by threatening to injure his "property or reputation."
Is a public statement a thing of value? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But the 8th Cir. has held that an apology can be a thing of value under the statute if the person demanding it wants it badly enough.
That was a case in which a guy created fake social media accounts portraying a woman who'd spurned him as a prostitute and exotic dancer. He said this was protected speech. The court said it was stalking. media.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/17/08/1…
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Teri Kanefield
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(Thread) The Manafort Transcript and What it Tells Us

The transcript here: cnn.com/2019/02/07/pol…

The issue at the hearing was whether Manafort reneged on his plea deal by lying to the Office of the Special Counsel (OSC).
1/ I am going to assume that what OSC says is true. Of all info sources available to us now, it seems to me the OSC is most likely to be accurate.

I’ll make clear where I’m making guesses.

[ ] indicates redacted parts.

So basically we're doing a puzzle with 1/3 of the pieces.
2/ First allegation: Manafort lied about the frequency of his contacts with Kilimnik.

He also lied about the number of times he and K talked about “it”

What is “it” ? You can read all about “it” on page 63👇
It’s the blacked out part.

“It” was really bad. Here’s how we know:
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Jennifer Taub
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📌 Highlights from the partial transcript from Monday's sealed court hearing with Paul Manafort.

cnn.com/2019/02/07/pol…
THE COURT: There are a series of lies I think -Can you tell me why that was - I guess where I got the most confused, what the importance is of any dissembling about whether Kilimnik knew who he was working for or not, and what his role was in creating the or advancing them?

1/
MR. WEISSMANN:
Why is that important? Okay. So, I mean, this goes to the larger view of what we think is going on, and what we think the motive here is. This goes, I think, very much to the heart of what the Special Counsel's Office is investigating.

2/
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Kenneth P. Vogel
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WOW: Per new court filing, KONSTANTIN KILIMNIK, the Russia intelligence-linked PAUL MANAFORT deputy, was in DC for TRUMP's inauguration, & met with Manafort about a Russia-Ukraine peace plan that we know envisioned a role for Russia-aligned former Ukrainian president YANUKOVYCH.
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According to the transcript of Paul Manafort's latest hearing, Trump's former campaign chairman kept working with Konstantin Kilimnik in Ukraine after being indicted, including discussing an unspecified "backdoor" related to their work. nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
The transcript also describes Manafort's August 2, 2016, meeting with Kilimnik as going "very much to the heart of what the Special Counsel's Office is investigating"—that is, collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Why did Manafort lie? Mueller's team appears to state the obvious: "to at least augment his chances for a pardon."
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Andrew Prokop
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Here's the transcript of Monday's Manafort hearing, focused on whether he lied during cooperation, via CNN cnn.com/2019/02/07/pol…
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Weissmann says there were two unusual factors in the cooperation deal with Manafort.

One is "the intelligence that could be gathered from having a cooperating witness in this particular invesitgation."

The second is... redacted.
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Renato Mariotti
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THREAD: What can we make of today's status report filed by Mueller indicating that Manafort lied to the FBI and to Mueller "on a variety of subject matters?"
1/ Today Mueller filed a status report indicating that "Manafort committed federal crimes by lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Special Counsel's Office on a variety of subject matters."
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