Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted former Trump. I do feel badly for Paul Manafort that I can tell you. Manafort was in bed early one morning in July when federal agents bearing a search warrant raided his Virginia home. Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort leaves the federal courthouse in Washington, Oct. "It's not something that's right now on my mind.
"I have not even given it a thought as of this moment," Trump said. President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday afternoon that he feels "very badly" for Manafort but said that he hasn't given any thought to offering him a pardon. Manafort with state criminal violations which strike at the heart of New York’s sovereign interests, including the integrity of our residential mortgage market." "Following an investigation commenced by our Office in March 2017, a Manhattan grand jury has charged Mr. 2008 Manafort and Gates embark upon a scheme and artifice to defraud, and to obtain money and property by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises from the United States, banks, and other financial institutions, according to Mueller’s indictment. "No one is beyond the law in New York," District Attorney Cyrus Vance said in a statement. The case was revived recently as Manafort’s legal odyssey with Mueller neared a conclusion. The Manhattan District Attorney's investigation began in March 2017 but was shelved in deference to the special counsel, according to a source familiar with the matter. Mueller's prosecutors also accused Manafort of using money wired from his offshore bank account to purchase some of the tickets.
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Remember, he believes that you and are living there."ĭuring a trial in a separate foreign lobbying and financial crimes case in Virginia brought by special counsel Robert Mueller's team, prosecutors accused Manafort, who is a longtime New York Yankees season tickets holder, of jeopardizing millions of loans he sought by putting big charges on the American Express card for the season tickets. "Could you please call to arrange a time for him to access the apartment. "The appraiser for Howard St is calling to make an appointment to view the condo," Manafort allegedly wrote in an email cited in the indictment. In one instance, Manafort is accused of deceiving an appraiser by pretending to be living in a condo that he was using to take out loans, according to the indictment. Art Lien / via NBC Newsįrom 2008 to 2014, Manafort wired $12 million to vendors for personal items, including $5.4 million on home improvements in the Hamptons, $934,350 to an antique rug store in Virginia, $520,440 to a clothing store in Beverley Hills and $655,500 for landscaping in New York, according to the indictment.(MORE: Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in court to confront special counsel's allegations of lying)Īccording to the indictment, the alleged crimes were committed between December 2015 and January 2017. Paul Manafort, center, and Richard Gates, right, are led into the courtroom for arraignment in Washington on Oct. Manafort laundered more than $18 million, which the indictment says he concealed from the federal government. Their work included lobbying "multiple Members of Congress and their staffs about Ukraine sanctions" and "the validity of Ukraine elections," according to the indictment. and foreign corporations, partnerships and banks, according to the charges. They hid the payments, from 2006 through 2016, by laundering the money through scores of U.S. The indictment says that both men generated tens of millions of dollars as a result of their lobbying work for the Ukraine.
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