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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 1:44 pm    Post subject:

governator wrote:
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Looks like Trump AG preparing to kill this Mueller investigation


https://twitter.com/AmandiOnAir/status/1097504888236527617?s=19

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Had a long chat with someone who worked closely with Special Counsel Mueller for years.

They believe that Mueller’s final report will not only be devastating to Trump, but that the person who’ll work closest with Mueller to make sure the Congress knows & acts is AG William Bar
r.


surprising, thought Bill Barr is Trump's guy


He is. So take that report with a huge boulder of salt. Barr was selected to thwart Mueller, not help him.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 2:29 pm    Post subject:

DaMuleRules wrote:
governator wrote:
vanexelent wrote:
governator wrote:
Looks like Trump AG preparing to kill this Mueller investigation


https://twitter.com/AmandiOnAir/status/1097504888236527617?s=19

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Had a long chat with someone who worked closely with Special Counsel Mueller for years.

They believe that Mueller’s final report will not only be devastating to Trump, but that the person who’ll work closest with Mueller to make sure the Congress knows & acts is AG William Bar
r.


surprising, thought Bill Barr is Trump's guy


He is. So take that report with a huge boulder of salt. Barr was selected to thwart Mueller, not help him.


On one hand he write that unsolicited memo bashing Mueller investigation. On the other hand he's been friends with Mueller for decades and seems to be pretty "by the books" kind of guy.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 2:45 pm    Post subject:

DaMuleRules wrote:
governator wrote:
vanexelent wrote:
governator wrote:
Looks like Trump AG preparing to kill this Mueller investigation


https://twitter.com/AmandiOnAir/status/1097504888236527617?s=19

Quote:
Had a long chat with someone who worked closely with Special Counsel Mueller for years.

They believe that Mueller’s final report will not only be devastating to Trump, but that the person who’ll work closest with Mueller to make sure the Congress knows & acts is AG William Bar
r.


surprising, thought Bill Barr is Trump's guy


He is. So take that report with a huge boulder of salt. Barr was selected to thwart Mueller, not help him.


Exactly. we might think Trump is stupid but he is not inviting anyone who is not on his side in some way..

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Mr. Whitaker, who had privately told associates that part of his role at the Justice Department was to “jump on a grenade” for the president,


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/politics/trump-investigations.html
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 4:18 pm    Post subject:

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A Coast Guard lieutenant arrested last Friday on gun and drug charges allegedly wanted to conduct a mass killing.

Christopher Paul Hasson, 49, of Silver Spring, Maryland, is alleged to be a white supremacist who had a hit list that included prominent Democratic politicians as well as several journalists from CNN and MSNBC. Hasson's case was first circulated by counterterrorism expert Seamus Hughes and the George Washington Program on Extremism.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/20/politics/coast-guard-mass-killing-hit-list/index.html?no-st=1550708174

Just now hearing about this?

Ammo

Maga Approved hit list of Dems and Media Libs.. wtf is going on

So sad this piece of (bleep) has been president for 2 years
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 5:22 pm    Post subject:

DaMuleRules wrote:
governator wrote:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/20/politics/special-counsel-conclusion-announcement/index.html

Justice Department preparing for Mueller report as early as next week


And how many times have we heard that?


Actually, we've never had reports with such specificity before. Last year, we had a number of vague reports that said that Mueller will be done "in a few months" or similar predictions.

NBC reported a few weeks ago that the report will be done in February, and this latest report by CNN is consistent with that. Let's see what happens.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 6:19 pm    Post subject:

Wilt wrote:
DaMuleRules wrote:
governator wrote:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/20/politics/special-counsel-conclusion-announcement/index.html

Justice Department preparing for Mueller report as early as next week


And how many times have we heard that?


Actually, we've never had reports with such specificity before. Last year, we had a number of vague reports that said that Mueller will be done "in a few months" or similar predictions.

NBC reported a few weeks ago that the report will be done in February, and this latest report by CNN is consistent with that. Let's see what happens.


No, we've had several reports over the last several months that the report was going to come in imminently . . . like a week or so. And as was said in this thread earlier today, even this one is very speculative because the Mueller team has been very leak proof. So no one would really know when it's coming out.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 6:20 pm    Post subject:

vanexelent wrote:
DaMuleRules wrote:
governator wrote:
vanexelent wrote:
governator wrote:
Looks like Trump AG preparing to kill this Mueller investigation


https://twitter.com/AmandiOnAir/status/1097504888236527617?s=19

Quote:
Had a long chat with someone who worked closely with Special Counsel Mueller for years.

They believe that Mueller’s final report will not only be devastating to Trump, but that the person who’ll work closest with Mueller to make sure the Congress knows & acts is AG William Bar
r.


surprising, thought Bill Barr is Trump's guy


He is. So take that report with a huge boulder of salt. Barr was selected to thwart Mueller, not help him.


On one hand he write that unsolicited memo bashing Mueller investigation. On the other hand he's been friends with Mueller for decades and seems to be pretty "by the books" kind of guy.


And then we have Trump, who no way in hell is going to appoint someone he isn't positive will run interference for him.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 6:29 pm    Post subject:

DaMuleRules wrote:
Wilt wrote:
DaMuleRules wrote:
governator wrote:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/20/politics/special-counsel-conclusion-announcement/index.html

Justice Department preparing for Mueller report as early as next week


And how many times have we heard that?


Actually, we've never had reports with such specificity before. Last year, we had a number of vague reports that said that Mueller will be done "in a few months" or similar predictions.

NBC reported a few weeks ago that the report will be done in February, and this latest report by CNN is consistent with that. Let's see what happens.


No, we've had several reports over the last several months that the report was going to come in imminently . . . like a week or so. And as was said in this thread earlier today, even this one is very speculative because the Mueller team has been very leak proof. So no one would really know when it's coming out.


Can you cite them, if there are several of them? I've never heard a report by a respected news organization that said "imminently" or a "week" until this one by CNN. I'll be glad to say I was wrong. Bloggers or random people on twitter don't count .
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 6:32 pm    Post subject:

My struggle is

What motive must one have to protect Donald Trump

Or are they protecting the people in the report?

If an enemy nation has helped the person in the white house get there.. why would William Barr protect that information? What motive?
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:13 am    Post subject:

Seth Abramson does a more complete job of analyzing it here:

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1/ The first important thing is to understand that—as NBC has done with a similar report over the last two days—CNN hedged its bets on its report in every way possible: (a) Barr's actions are merely "preparations." (b) CNN treats the news as merely an "indication" of the future.


2/ (c) If true, it means Mueller's "nearly" done. (d) "The precise timing of the announcement is subject to change." (e) "The scope and contours of what Barr will send to Congress remain unclear." (f) "Also unclear is how long it'll take Justice to prepare what it will submit."

3/ As someone who teaches journalism as well as legal advocacy, I'd say that's a heck of a lot of hedging. We got the same thing—admittedly on a more sparse report—from NBC's Pete Williams yesterday when he said "it's just our [NBC's] speculation" as to when Mueller will finish.

4/ A last hedge from CNN—and previously NBC—is that neither Justice nor Mueller will comment on these reports, and the sources are (of course) anonymous, so we have no idea how strong the sourcing is. The sources are at Justice—but whether they're in-the-know/biased we can't say.

5/ Some of CNN's report is rehashed—reading signs about Mueller possibly finishing up it's noted before (e.g., 4 of Mueller's 17 prosecutors being reassigned). CNN also says it saw "special counsel's office employees carry boxes and push a cart full of files out of their office."

6/ In making that second observation (about files leaving Mueller's office), CNN issued a *warning* about how we should understand what's happening—noting that the movement of files may signal a "hand-off" of certain cases (to other federal prosecutors) rather than their closure.

7/ This is why some inexact language being used by very good reporters at CNN should be checked, including one journalist who said (erroneously) that this report, if true, meant "the completion of the Russia investigation." If we know one thing, we know that that's not accurate.

8/ One reason many attorneys (me, Preet Bharara, and many others) saw Mueller delivering a report to DOJ this summer rather than this spring—keeping in mind that when *we* see it, and how much of it we see, is a different matter—is because certain things can't be wrapped up yet.

9/ Russian spy Maria Butina's boyfriend Paul Erickson was just charged, and we don't know what he'll reveal; Roger Stone was just charged, and we don't know what he'll reveal; Manafort may face new charges or may balk when he gets his sentence, so we don't know what he'll reveal.

10/ Mueller's office previously told Jerome Corsi it would indict him, and that still hasn't happened; Congress has sent transcripts to Mueller indicating felony perjury or lying to Congress by Erik Prince, Donald Trump Jr. and others, and those charges have not yet been brought.

11/ Mueller is still fighting with one individual and one corporation to compel grand jury testimony, and just extended his grand jury 6 months, so those matters must be litigated, as must outstanding subpoenas for document production—apparently internationally—that Mueller sent.

12/ Even taking all this—and more—into account, Mueller is entitled to issue a "final" report saying who he prosecuted, who he *plans to prosecute* or *is about to prosecute*, and who he chose not to prosecute (which could include the president, non-prosecuted due to DOJ regs).

13/ So a "final" report from Robert Mueller could be issued at the same time as any number of indictments are brought or pursued, with DOJ knowing that Mueller's office will have to supplement any "final" report with anything it learns from current or future indicted individuals.

14/ At the same time, as DOJ doesn't comment on ongoing investigations, any "hand-off" cases that go to other federal prosecutors (say at SDNY, EDVA or DC) will not necessarily be addressed in any "final" report, or, if mentioned, may appear partly or wholly redacted pre-release.

15/ What those who've been reporting that Mueller is close to issuing a final report have been saying is simply that: that he's close to issuing a "final report." That doesn't mean "the Russia investigation is complete" in anything like the way most people will hear that phrase.

16/ We also know that Robert Mueller may or may not close (or be involved with, or even know about) every *counterintelligence* case that may remain open about Trump and his campaign—possibly leading to new criminal cases down the line—as opposed to Mueller's *criminal* inquiry.

17/ Mueller's report, if indeed issued in March, could include information that leads to new counterintelligence investigations, new criminal investigations, new Congressional hearings that lead to new security concerns and new criminal referrals—we just have no idea whatsoever.

18/ We don't know if Mueller was forced to end his work by Barr; if Mueller chose not to indict certain Trump compatriots because they're cooperating witnesses in an impeachable-offense (collusion-related) allegation against Trump; if Mueller handed off explosive cases, or what.

19/ The upshot: lawyers and investigators (or, like me, lawyers and former investigators) have consistently said that *on the facts* Mueller can't be done with his work or even 3 months from done; CNN and MSNBC are reporting that *administratively* Mueller may be closing up shop.

20/ So if the reports are right, as @neal_katyal says we're only at the "end of the beginning," not the end of the end. And depending upon how and why we got here now, and what Mueller says in his report—or else sees redacted—we may well be at the beginning of a year of scandals.

21/ I'm only scratching the surface of this topic here. We still may have up to 20 sealed indictments per the DC docket (or none, or more) and even CNN notes that "even with signs of a wrap-up, the DC US Attorney's office has stepped in to work on cases that may continue longer."

22/ Just one probe *alone*—of Trump's inaugural committee—has many of the same witnesses as the Russia investigation "proper" (e.g., Barrack, Flynn, Gates, and more), so how and whether charges emanate from those cases will determine how much more such cases produce on collusion.

23/ Certainly, we know that people like Flynn and Gates have provided the feds with enormous cooperation with secret intel only they (or they and few people) have—and we've seen *no indictments* from that information, which means other shoes *have* to drop. That's how this works.

24/ So if you're seeing attorneys scrambling a bit here, it's because reporters have the easy job in this instance—simply saying whether they're hearing a report is coming—and attorneys the much harder job: to explain how that could be the case when it *factually* makes no sense.

25/ (And/or to explain how the news the reporters are reporting doesn't actually mean what some of the reporters are implying—as I've tried to do here by emphasizing how many different explosive directions this situation could go in over the next month, many harrowing for Trump.)

PS/ Those of us *also* in the midst of researching books are in a particularly fraught place—as we need to get our research done and *know* a book-length treatise is required to explain what's happened, but *also* know how bad the truth is and that therefore this isn't near over.

PS2/ For instance, I did a thread a week ago summarizing that we have *all ends* of an illegal "quid pro quo" of pre-election collusion involving the Trump campaign and an Israeli business intelligence operation that successfully sold Trump Jr. on a Saudi-funded disinfo campaign.

PS3/ So (taking that as just one example of many), I could take today's news as meaning that Trump Jr. will be charged with Lying to Congress by March and then leaned on for more info on Wikistrat/Psy-Group; that this is all part of the ongoing counterintel op; or something else.

PS4/ I can't give you an answer on where these clear lines of federal inquiry are going, and neither can anyone else—but I know they exist and I know they cannot and will not be blithely closed with a simple report in March. *Many* of these threads are *far* too explosive to end.

PS5/ For all we know, Robert Mueller will dump tons of raw intel into the laps of Congress and the CIA and tell them to investigate it all because he doesn't want to exceed his mandate. We just can't know now and *won't* know for many, many more months—and maybe not even in 2019.

NOTE/ Having said that, should Mueller give DOJ a report that Barr then publishes—redacted—suggesting no illegal pre-election conspiracy with foreign powers, I'll be happy to publish PROOF OF CONSPIRACY to show America what Barr would have had to redact to reach his "conclusion."

NOTE2/ I should've added that IF Barr prematurely shut down Mueller (as the spouse of Trump's Director of Strategic Communications somehow "knew" on Twitter)—but which I DON'T think is what this is—it goes without saying that protestors shutting down D.C. is the only option left.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:25 am    Post subject:

Wilt wrote:
DaMuleRules wrote:
Wilt wrote:
DaMuleRules wrote:
governator wrote:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/20/politics/special-counsel-conclusion-announcement/index.html

Justice Department preparing for Mueller report as early as next week


And how many times have we heard that?


Actually, we've never had reports with such specificity before. Last year, we had a number of vague reports that said that Mueller will be done "in a few months" or similar predictions.

NBC reported a few weeks ago that the report will be done in February, and this latest report by CNN is consistent with that. Let's see what happens.


No, we've had several reports over the last several months that the report was going to come in imminently . . . like a week or so. And as was said in this thread earlier today, even this one is very speculative because the Mueller team has been very leak proof. So no one would really know when it's coming out.


Can you cite them, if there are several of them? I've never heard a report by a respected news organization that said "imminently" or a "week" until this one by CNN. I'll be glad to say I was wrong. Bloggers or random people on twitter don't count .


Glance through the last 6 months of this thread. There have been plenty of discussions about how various sources were reporting that the release of the Mueller report was imminent or that he was close to wrapping it up. Not even sure how that could be in dispute.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:33 am    Post subject:

What sort of mindset .. what is their dedication

Why would he hide this information

Wouldn't he truly be a traitor to the people of the USA if he hid this information?

The most powerful seat in the world is filled with a Russian Asset

A man who does not care what he does that we think is disgusting or wrong.. he doesn't care

He sent his wife out to help the public turn their eye away from the babies in cages .. I think it was so gross I cannot even remember the exact words.. so shocking and blatantly inhumane

"I really don't care, do you?" .. written in big letters on the back of her $40 rain jacket

What kind of people are they?

She wore that while touring baby prisons in Texas.. ah well
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:47 am    Post subject:

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Seth Abramson does a more complete job of analyzing it here:


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PS2/ For instance, I did a thread a week ago summarizing that we have *all ends* of an illegal "quid pro quo" of pre-election collusion involving the Trump campaign and an Israeli business intelligence operation that successfully sold Trump Jr. on a Saudi-funded disinfo campaign.



Just read about this yesterday.. Key owners of the company were previously in high levels of Israeli Govt
https://www.presstv.com/DetailFr/2019/02/12/588398/US-Mossad-Spying-Election-PsyGroup-Zamel-Cambridge-Analytica
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The New Yorker named Ram Ben-Barak, who was previously a deputy director of Mossad, and Yaakov Amidror, the former national security adviser to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as the agents behind its operations.


Deep detail here
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-who-is-joel-zamel-australian-israeli-linked-to-mueller-s-trump-probe-1.6104963

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By contrast, Wikistrat is a large, established company with a much higher and extremely public profile. It was founded in Israel in 2010 and is now based in Washington, D. C. It bills itself as “the world’s first crowdsourced consultancy. We leverage a worldwide community of several hundred strategic thinkers to run simulations of likely international events and unfolding global trends, wargame future conflict or crisis scenarios, and conduct strategic planning exercises.”



Thank you for posting that.

Maybe William Barr feels it is a Patriotic Responsibility to protect the office of the president of the USA from shame and disgrace even further?

I have no doubt that Russian Ops INSIDE the USA have gone up since Trump took office..
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:00 pm    Post subject:

Here's a nice primer on next week's Trump-Kim Summit II - the Dumbening: WaPo (sub required)

Basically, it sounds like Trump will ask for a commitment to denuclearization, NK won't provide that guarantee, then Trump will spin it as a win over additional U.S. soldier remains being sent back to the U.S.

The main thing to look for under this president is that there's no promise of formal withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Korea or acknowledgement of the end of the Korean War without more significant concessions than KJU is likely willing to provide. But economic cooperation (triangulated with South Korea) and continued sanctions relief should merit on-site inspections and a commitment to halt nuclear missile technology development efforts at their current levels from the DPRK.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:55 pm    Post subject:

vanexelent wrote:
DaMuleRules wrote:
governator wrote:
vanexelent wrote:
governator wrote:
Looks like Trump AG preparing to kill this Mueller investigation


https://twitter.com/AmandiOnAir/status/1097504888236527617?s=19

Quote:
Had a long chat with someone who worked closely with Special Counsel Mueller for years.

They believe that Mueller’s final report will not only be devastating to Trump, but that the person who’ll work closest with Mueller to make sure the Congress knows & acts is AG William Bar
r.


surprising, thought Bill Barr is Trump's guy


He is. So take that report with a huge boulder of salt. Barr was selected to thwart Mueller, not help him.


On one hand he write that unsolicited memo bashing Mueller investigation. On the other hand he's been friends with Mueller for decades and seems to be pretty "by the books" kind of guy.

That memo was 5-D chess by Barr to get into the AG spot and then protect Mueller. #pipedreams
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 21, 2019 10:26 pm    Post subject:

tox wrote:
vanexelent wrote:
DaMuleRules wrote:
governator wrote:
vanexelent wrote:
governator wrote:
Looks like Trump AG preparing to kill this Mueller investigation


https://twitter.com/AmandiOnAir/status/1097504888236527617?s=19

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Had a long chat with someone who worked closely with Special Counsel Mueller for years.

They believe that Mueller’s final report will not only be devastating to Trump, but that the person who’ll work closest with Mueller to make sure the Congress knows & acts is AG William Bar
r.


surprising, thought Bill Barr is Trump's guy


He is. So take that report with a huge boulder of salt. Barr was selected to thwart Mueller, not help him.


On one hand he write that unsolicited memo bashing Mueller investigation. On the other hand he's been friends with Mueller for decades and seems to be pretty "by the books" kind of guy.

That memo was 5-D chess by Barr to get into the AG spot and then protect Mueller. #pipedreams

I’m not against smoking that pipe though.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 9:08 am    Post subject:

New York Prosecutors Expected to Charge Manafort, Guarding Against Trump Pardon

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The Manhattan district attorney’s office is preparing state criminal charges against Paul J. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, in an effort to ensure he will still face prison time even if the president pardons him for his federal crimes, according to several people with knowledge of the matter.


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Any charges brought by Mr. Vance’s office would likely be challenged on double jeopardy grounds. New York state law includes stronger protections than those provided by the United States Constitution, and Mr. Manafort’s defense team is likely to challenge state charges. But prosecutors in Mr. Vance’s office have expressed confidence that they would prevail, people with knowledge of the matter said.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/nyregion/manafort-pardon-trump.html
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 9:14 am    Post subject:

Why can't this just be a spy mystery comedy movie and not RL

Like Hogans Heroes or something.. just not real life

The thread reads like a weekly tv show script

We will come to find out Cohen is still working for the pres undercover like Manny tried to. Why else would Trump want to have a judge installed to look over Cohen?
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Any charges brought by Mr. Vance’s office would likely be challenged on double jeopardy grounds. New York state law includes stronger protections than those provided by the United States Constitution, and Mr. Manafort’s defense team is likely to challenge state charges. But prosecutors in Mr. Vance’s office have expressed confidence that they would prevail, people with knowledge of the matter said.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/nyregion/manafort-pardon-trump.html


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The Manhattan district attorney’s office is preparing state criminal charges against Paul J. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, in an effort to ensure he will still face prison time even if the president pardons him for his federal crimes, according to several people with knowledge of the matter.


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Any charges brought by Mr. Vance’s office would likely be challenged on double jeopardy grounds. New York state law includes stronger protections than those provided by the United States Constitution, and Mr. Manafort’s defense team is likely to challenge state charges. But prosecutors in Mr. Vance’s office have expressed confidence that they would prevail, people with knowledge of the matter said.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/nyregion/manafort-pardon-trump.html


It's been my understanding (and not saying I'm correct) that Double Jeopardy doesn't apply when a crime violates both Federal and State laws.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 9:36 am    Post subject:

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New York Prosecutors Expected to Charge Manafort, Guarding Against Trump Pardon

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The Manhattan district attorney’s office is preparing state criminal charges against Paul J. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, in an effort to ensure he will still face prison time even if the president pardons him for his federal crimes, according to several people with knowledge of the matter.


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Any charges brought by Mr. Vance’s office would likely be challenged on double jeopardy grounds. New York state law includes stronger protections than those provided by the United States Constitution, and Mr. Manafort’s defense team is likely to challenge state charges. But prosecutors in Mr. Vance’s office have expressed confidence that they would prevail, people with knowledge of the matter said.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/nyregion/manafort-pardon-trump.html


It's been my understanding (and not saying I'm correct) that Double Jeopardy doesn't apply when a crime violates both Federal and State laws.


NY law has a more stringent standard to prevent people from being charged on a state level when they've been charged at the federal level.

The NY legislature has been thinking about reversing these laws, but have not yet done anything about it.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 9:59 am    Post subject:

NY's law prohibits charging crimes that are significantly the same as those they have been charged federally with, but my guess is the NY AG and Mueller are smart enough to work out a division of prosecution.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 10:01 am    Post subject:

FWIW, I expect it's not the pardon possibility that keeps Manafort from full cooperation. I'd bet a fair amount of money he and his loved ones have been threatened.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2019 10:39 am    Post subject:

Omar Little wrote:
NY's law prohibits charging crimes that are significantly the same as those they have been charged federally with, but my guess is the NY AG and Mueller are smart enough to work out a division of prosecution.


I'm fairly confident that that is the case.

I really don't think that the former head of the FBI and the state AG read about double jeopardy laws in the newspaper and suddenly realized that they can't do what they're doing.
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