The defendents are disturbed and I can live with that.
How Mueller manages to maintain control of this sprawling dumpster fire is a mystery to me. (Yeah, I see the alliteration there.) He’s working up several chains that all end with the head flaming dumpster. It might take a while, but I’m confident our feckless POTUS is going down.
“Concord Management is partially owned by Yevgeniy Prigozhin, a Kremlin-linked restaurant mogul.”
Whatever you do, do NOT order the Novichok Burger!
And don’t even get me started on the Polonium Spice Latte…
All the best people ate there…
Stick to the Spam.
In Russia, Spam sticks to you…
That’s funny, they’re disturbed that the federal prosecutors have records from the federal government. What a hoot. 
At least this is a step forward from their previous claim that they hadn’t received proper service but still wanted to conduct discovery. Sounds like these people are going to file enough motions to make manafort’s lawyers look positively silent.
They need to publish the names and home addresses of any of these conspirators. Want to work for Russia? You ought to be looking over your shoulder when you try and walk down the street.
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Sounds like these people are going to file enough motions to make manafort’s lawyers look positively silent.
[/quote]There are fees to be made … and lotsa money to pay them.
Everyone is entitled to representation in criminal matters and it’s wrong to attack lawyers for defending their clients. But I really don’t think being a snarky, game-playing asshole is going to be a long-term good look for these guys in this matter.
I don’t know enough criminal procedure to even be talking, but saying you have “submitted to the court’s jurisdiction” and confirming you’ve read “a publicly-available version of the indictment” that you were previously waxing indignant about having been emailed by the prosecution isn’t really showing me they’ve given up on the both having and eating of cake plan.
“Submitting to the court’s jurisdiction” is a civil procedure concept. And even then, it’s a waiver of the lack of personal jurisdiction defense, not a waiver of the insufficiency of service of process defense, the latter being the civil analog to the criminal procedural issue at play here. Put that together with the “oh, I’ve read a publicly available version of the indictment, and totally not that thing that Mueller emailed me and asked whether I’d accept service of it on behalf of the client” and it says to me they’re still playing games.
Nothing like a client with deep pockets and a grudge.
Putin’s personal wealth is estimated at what, $200 billion?
Some criminal clients want their lawyer to be a smartass. Client is 6000 miles away and doesn’t understand our legal system so give him a big show.
Dubelier is a former AUSA so he should know better.
8000+, at least. Italy is 6,000+ and Russia is a fair piece east from there.
Don’t you hate it when somebody does this? Sorry - the mileage to Italy is just in my head permanently.
Some Russians are exhausting with their double speak, lies and bull shit. My Russian neighbor is like that, full of BS, totally contrarian, argumentative over every little thing. I mean, they lie right to your face even when you know it’s total bullshit and the confidence in which they do it is just galling.
As they say, “Your mileage may vary.”