OK, $934,350 in antique rugs. They better fly for that price.
Love the kicker at the end of the indictment: FORFEITURE ALLEGATION
“My houses, my suits, my beautiful carpets, gone, all gone. I’m melting, melting. Oh, what a world, what a world.”
This is a streak of four days in a row with Mueller indictments, yes?
Belgium, The European Center, former European Chancelor, gotta read this again, more slowly…
I’m assuming that they’re starting in chronological order and will eventually bring things up to the present.
From Manafort’s spokesman:
Shine on, you crazy diamond.
It’s never good to be the last one to cut a deal. At 68, Manafort is facing spending his final days in prison. Men like Manafort don’t fall on swords.
A promised pardon? Wouldn’t Gates have had the same promise?
Polonium allergy is all I can come up with. Any other ideas?
I suppose it’s theoretically possible he’s innocent. 
Well I don’t know wasn’t it one of his daughters saying something about blood money?
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Yes here it is.
I hasten to add that I don’t think it likely he’s innocent. Just a tiny joke. As George Will said about O.J., if you took away any 90 percent of the evidence, the remaining 10 would be enough to convict him.
Oh I know !
this one mentions the FBI raid at dawn in 2017 for documents saved longer than 30 days…
I can hear his attorney’s foolproof defense already.
"Your honor, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, my client is innocent of these charges. He is not guilty. He did not commit these dozens of interrelated crimes. [pounds shoe on table] Nyet! Nyet! Nyet! Nyet! Nyet! "
Wow! George Will got something right? ¡Es un milagro!
That puts the squeeze on his wife and family.
Nyet charges, nyet charges, you are the charges!
He has nothing to lose by defending as strongly as possible for as long as possible. Even if he pleads, he faces life in prison or life on the run. And he’s still got information that others likely don’t, which won’t decrease in value for some time yet. So why not roll the dice on a pardon or a coup or a helicopter escape and, if he has to fold, do it right before the case goes to the jury.
Manafort, btw, is also a sobering example of how the super-rich have entered a completely different world from even the quite rich. He’s tossing tens of millions of dollars around, and diverting a good chunk of that for himself, but to the oligarchs he’s just a minor loose end.
Only while free. The world looks the same to everyone from inside a federal joint, let alone a state prison.
If that were true no one would be making deals.
Gates is a shinning example of the value of cutting a deal. 100 years (ie dying in prison) vs. 54 to 72 months.