Discussion: NYT: Manafort Doing Unregistered Work For Kurds Amid Federal Probe

Why should we believe that? There’s no history of Manafort registering with FARA, except under compulsion by federal investigators.

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He needs the cash because he’s struggling to pay his lawyers. Maybe his pal Trump can get the RNC to foot his bills, too?

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Manafort reverts to type and works for foreign governments illegally.

In other news, water remains alarmingly wet.

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Hmmmmm…wouldn’t you think, after all the mess going on, that he would err on the conservative side and register?

I mean, he can’t be so dumb as to think that the gov’t and/or IC don’t know what he’s doing, can he?? *

* rhetorical question

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Why do the Kurds want to work with scum like Manafort???

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It’s not dumbness—although he has that in spades.

It’s hubris and venality— two of the requisite qualities for success in the GOP.

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Manafort, ignoring the law?
##By working for the Kurds?
#No whey!!

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What we have here, is a—failure to communicate.

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Puns. Believe me, I know how tuffet is.

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Dare ya to make a worse one, in context, before nightfall tomorrow.
@irasdad - U2

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The dangers of dihydrogen monoxide are very poorly understood by the general public.

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Not if he was intending to not claim the income on his taxes…

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Serious question: Why does FARA allow retroactive registration covering work already started or completed? Shouldn’t the lobbyist be required to register prior to beginning the work of representing the interests of a foreign government?

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Very cheesy post…

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I think @squirreltown is gonna muffet.

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Does it actually allow retroactive registration, or is there just a general practice of not prosecuting if someone belatedly registers?

I could see an argument being made that someone, somewhere, under some strange set of circumstances, might do work that they only later realize is on behalf of a foreign government. But it would be a lousy argument.

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In that case, I’d say they should get a pass, maybe a minimum fine and some minor wrist slapping. But as a matter of course, these guys should register up-front. Seems as though virtually every Trump connected ‘lobbyist’ has had to register after the fact.

I’m really skeptical of the idea that he is owed money by his masters in Russia. His actions speak more of someone who is under a huge threat, possibly owing money or services to Russians.

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Deripaska gave Manafort $19 million to purchase a Ukrainian television network, but once the latter got the money he stopped returning the former’s calls. Deripaska was trying to get that money back until the middle of last year, when they suddenly became friends again. And yet, the sanctions remain.

But it’s also the case that Manafort got fresh loans this year. I really don’t understand how someone who’s worked with that many shady characters throughout his life could still need money, but I’m not a big spender.

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