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Scott Stedman
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NEW: Judge rules that Manafort lied to Mueller on three of the five instances - including the most important one - interactions with Konstantin Kilimnik.
This means that Manafort has breached his plea agreement and is subject to the full penalty of the law.
Judge rulings:

Manafort lied about:
-his interactions with Kilimnik in 2016 and 2017
-the "other DOJ investigation"
-the $125k Super PAC payment
Mueller failed to prove:
-Manafort lied about Kilmnik's role in obstruction.
-Manafort lied about his contacts with Trump admin
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Mueller’s mandate was a fact-finding mission. If he is indeed wrapping up soon, it’s because he has a clear idea of what happened in 2016. After the fact-finding is complete, the necessity of a Special Counsel almost goes away. Federal prosecutors can handle any future charges.
Which is why I emphasize again, Mueller finishing up his work is not synonymous with the Russia investigation ending. Quite the contrary.
A Democratic House ensured that matters that Mueller didn’t investigate (Russian money laundering into Trump properties, reportedly) will be run to ground by Congress.
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Occam’s razor: Something really bad happened between Trump/his inner circle and Russia during the 2016 campaign and that’s why everyone lied about it.
Remember, this coverup started in December 2016 when Hope Hicks said that there were zero communications between anyone on the Trump campaign and any Russians.
Now there’s so many areas where a conspiracy to swing the election doesn’t seen far fetched:

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Cyrus Toulabi
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As I noted back in September, the standard Mueller used for determining that Manafort had breached his plea was REALLY low -- just "good faith," as compared to preponderance of the evidence with Rick Gates.

They probably never really believed he was going to cooperate.
Remember that Manafort would have gotten discovery on what Gates told Mueller in the EDVA trial.

Maybe he believed that's all that Mueller knew. But ... he knew more than that.

I bet Manafort put more secrets in his iCloud account, the dummy.
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