Discussion: Manafort Proposes Putting Up Real Estate Properties For Bail

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Real Estate means nothing to a vulture like Manafort.

How about he puts up a wife, child, or grandchild?

Never mind, heā€™s still a vultureā€¦

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Put up cash, pal, like every other defendant that the court thinks might endanger the community or might flee from prosecution. You want to use your properties? Go to a bank and use them as collateral for a cash loan.

Or, put on a jumpsuit.

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Meaningless action without a thorough title search and a determination that there are no other liens or encumbrances on the property.

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Real Estate - like that home that was being remodeled for millions over a number of years - that only after the early am raid, was a crew hired to start doing some work (and had to be sent word - via reporters - that the owner was in custody last Monday)?

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Given Manafortā€™s ties to Russia, and the way Putin has of disposing people that embarrass him , the judge shouldnā€™t be considering anything short of an isolation cell in close protective custody.

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Arenā€™t these properties subject to civil or criminal forfeiture; or at least tax liens?
Is the value placed on them gross or net?

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Manafort will be shitting his pants whenever he sees someone with an umbrella!

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Bail means cash.

Manafort should go to a bail bond place across from the court house and borrow cash against his real estate collateral just like a lot of Americans without liquidity.

I am happy to provide some addresses for him from from the top of my Google Search for freeā€¦: The Bond Apartments (Open till 5PM), Marcus Bail Bond, Dominion Bail Bonds (Open 24 hours), Poindexter & Associates Inc, FitzPatrick & Associates (Closed today), Bonding Yee, Affordable Bail Bonds LLC (Open 24 hours) and my favorite with a name fit for the Yellow Pages: A AA AA All Hyattsville Bail Bonds (Open 24 hours).

Else he should spend time in jail.

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The proposal, to which Special Counsel Robert Mueller has not yet agreed, would let Manafort travel to Florida, New York, Virginia and Washington, D.C., but not internationally.

Hmmā€¦who else has properties in those locations?? Perhaps a face to face to discuss pardons?

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Just curious ā€“ would it be possible for [Manafort] to request asylum at an embassy? One that doesnā€™t have reciprocity with the US?

(Iā€™m guessing that then the only way out of the country would be to be disguised and leave hidden in the laundry truck, or somethingā€¦)

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ā€œCounsel for Mr. Manafort and the Office of Special Counsel have been discussing a potential agreed-upon bail package recommendation but, as noted above, securing the additional documentation for the values of Mr. Manafortā€™s assets and liabilities over the weekend has proven problematic,ā€ his attorneys said.

That tends to happen when you rely heavily on laundered money, eh, Mr. Manafort? Tough titty, I say. Donā€™t have the cash? ā€“ Well, Iā€™m going to go out on a limb here and bet your home is quite cushy, so I wonā€™t shed a tear for you.

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Two words:

Flight. Risk.

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Canā€™t get a bail bond? Surely he had friends that trust him

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Perhaps he can pay in-kind with antique rugs? Baggy suits? A month worth of free landscaping for the judgeā€™s house in the Hamptons?

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Creative liquidity is his thing.

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I guess thatā€™s one way to launder ill-gotten booty.

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Itā€™d be nice if Parliament uses that as an excuse to worm its way out of Brexit. What they seem unwilling to do is simply state that leaving the EU was a stupid, stupid idea pushed through with bald-faced lies scribbled on the side of a bus.

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