Damn! I thought we could keep that secret until the debate on the debt ceiling.
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66,552,100 rubles, as of today.
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Note that the Shutdown and the lead-up to the current agreement have distracted us from this and Trumpās other crimes and scandals.
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There is a number of those buildings in Silver Lake and off the Hollywood Freeway. Were some of Palmerās complexes the ones which were torched in the last 5 or 10 years in DTLA adjacent to a freeway?
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I think Bill Maher said that quite a few years ago.
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Just when you think Manafortās snake pit canāt get any deeper. And yet Mueller continues to discover multiple layers of snake pits Manafort has dug.
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I suspect Mueller knows more than I do. Iām not sure if that gives me confidence or terror. I suspect thereās a lot lot lot more to this.
Iām really dying to know more about the end-point of the state investigations.
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Oh cāmon, you know you just need oneā¦ 
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Iām always forgetting about a million here or a million there.
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Manafort is an extremely horrible human being. Itās hard really to comprehend just how bad he is.
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Manafort: Charges just keep piling up and the freaking pardon just doesnāt arriveā¦ should I squeal?
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But, in the run-up to his trial, Manafort would bounce from the limo and fast-stroll into the Courthouse smilinā!
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I had initially thought the first item in the Manafort hearing related to the Federal Savings Bank of Chicago matter that came up in the Virginia trial. But this letter and the TPM write-up seem to establish that the first item was not about FSB Chicago but rather this PAC scam. To my mind, this is very new in the litany of Manafort related scams.
After re-reading the NYT piece in December 2018, which started to highlight the inaugural fund matter, it feels like the Qatar govāt is going to be issuing another āoopsā statement that money from their sovereign wealth fund just happened to get into a US Superpac in violation of US law. The NYT article states that after Manafort was fired from the Trump campaign he went on a Mediterranean cruise with Tom Barrack, and
On the cruise, the pair met one of the worldās richest men, Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, the former prime minister of Qatar. Until 2013, Mr. Al Thani presided over the countryās $230 billion sovereign wealth fund. He remains a highly influential member of the nationās governing royal family.
Is it possible that this Qatar entity is the one that is the subject of that mystery criminal matter that is now before the SCOTUS?
There was a 125k payment that was paid to a law firm to satisfy a Manafort debt. It looks to have been paid out of this PAC.
I think entitling the article the āManafort linked PACā may be slightly misleading. It was run by Tom Barrack and Manafort helped him staff it by recommending a few folks. Did Manafort tap into these funds as a source of money? Did the PAC itself take illegal contributions. It feels like Mueller is much further along in terms of following the money than weāve probably understood up to this point.
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Yay! 
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Thunderclap, your outlook was particularly beneficial to meā¦and the other people who looked to me to cheer them up.
Yay! 
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Off-topic but ā¦
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Itās grifting vipers all the way down.
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Sorry, petty of me, I know, butā¦patent leather slipons, no socks, and pants about 2 inches too longā¦
Can it get any sleazier?
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Yes, and it will. Stay tuned.
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itās 3pm on the west coastā¦ definitely time for a fresh pot 
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