🔥🔥 MSW EXCLUSIVE 🔥🔥
SCOOP/ MANAFORT COLLUSION
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1/ So we had the pleasure this week of speaking to a criminal defense attorney in the EDVA who has stood in front of Judge Ellis, and spoke to a lawyer that was in the hearing for Manafort’s motion to dismiss.
SCOOP/ MANAFORT COLLUSION
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1/ So we had the pleasure this week of speaking to a criminal defense attorney in the EDVA who has stood in front of Judge Ellis, and spoke to a lawyer that was in the hearing for Manafort’s motion to dismiss.
2/ First, she Explained (as I had posited) that Judge Ellis goes hard on the government to make sure the Feds have good reason to bring a case. In fact, he does this so often, it’s called “getting Ellised”, and is considered a badge of honor for federal prosecutors.
3/ Then she told us about an attorney who was present during the motion hearing last Friday when Ellis laid into Mueller’s team. When asked why the case wasn’t given to EDVA the way the Cohen case was handed off to SDNY, he dropped a bombshell.
4/ We have learned that back in 2005, the US Atty in EDVA Chuck Rosenberg (who I’ve seen a million times on @maddow) had looked at these Manafort bank/tax fraud and money laundering charges back in 2005 but decided not to prosecute.
5/ That’s why Mueller didn’t send these charges back to EDVA; they’d passed on them already. Plus, there’s a statute of limitations issue. After 8 yrs, Manafort can no longer be prosecuted for bank/tax fraud crimes UNLESS you can loop those crimes back into something more recent.
6/ Therefore, Mueller wouldn’t be able to bring charges from over a decade ago unless they were connected to the current Russia investigation, and those charges are not yet known to the public. So HOW are decade-old money crimes connected to the 2016 election? I think I know how,
7/ Well, at least I can guess how. This is a theory so grab your foil hats. Remember Deripaska? He and Manafort invested together a lot while Manafort, Kilimnik, and Gates were working for Yanukovych in the Ukraine. In fact, Deripaska invested $18M with Manafort...
8/ on a telecom company deal about a decade ago. Then Manafort and Gates disappeared with Deripaska’s money after Yanukovych lost his election. Deripaska sued Manafort TWICE to get it back, but mysteriously withdrew his lawsuit when Manafort got his no-pay-needed job with Trump.
9/ Manafort promised Deripaska private briefings on the campaign to pay him back, which he gave at least one well-documented time in August, 2016. Manafort dined with Kilimnik at 666 5th Ave and gave him the brief, who then told Deripaska who flew in on a private jet that night,
10/ then Deripaska flew to Moscow immediately to pick up the Prime Minister of Russia. They flew to Norway and hung out on a yacht where Deripaska told the PM what he learned from Kilimnik’s brief with Manafort. Video was taken by Nastya Rybka that was released by Navalny,
11/ and now Rybka is in a Thai prison and Navalny has been jailed. So, all the bank/tax fraud and money laundering associated with that $18M from a decade ago would not be prosecutable because it’s past the 8 year statute of limitations,
12/ but because Manafort paid it back with squid pro crow private briefings about the Trump campaign in 2016, POOF!! It’s relevant. And it’s collusion. And superseding indictments on Manafort are coming. That’s conjecture, but I’m right. #MSW #MuellerIsComing
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