End to Manafort plea deal could put Palm Beach Gardens home at risk

[DonViejo]

By Christine Stapleton

Posted at 8:40 AM
Updated at 8:58 AM

Paul Manafort’s efforts to make sure his wife could continue living in the couple’s Palm Beach Gardens home should he go to prison fizzled after special counsel Robert Mueller III filed court papers last week asking a judge to throw out the deal because Manafort lied.

The special counsel in the Russia investigation in November accused Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, of violating his plea agreement by repeatedly lying to federal investigators, according to court records filed by the special counsel’s office last week. One of Manafort’s lawyers is also suspected of briefing Trump’s lawyers on his client’s discussions with federal investigators, according to the New York Times.

At a court hearing in September, Manafort pleaded guilty to years of financial crimes intended to hide his money from the IRS. And he promised to tell the government about “his participation in and knowledge of all criminal activities,” including his work on the Trump campaign as well as his Ukrainian political work.

Also in the plea deal, Manafort agreed to forfeit his $22 million real estate portfolio. The 5,231-square-foot home in BallenIsles — legally the couple’s homestead — was the only property in Manafort’s property holdings that prosecutors had agreed not to seize.

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[beachbum bob]

1. take everything, the house, the furnishing, all the clothes and jewlry....there is cost to Manafort

and HIS FAMILY

[BlancheSplanchnik]

2. Yes! Make paulie real sorry! The only way scum like him understands. n/t

[grantcart]

5. That's what they did to Duke Cunningham

[BlancheSplanchnik]

6. Looks like I'm gonna have to google... :p

[BlancheSplanchnik]

7. Aha. I see. GOOD!!

[grantcart]

8. He was the real person that Cruise's character in Top Gun was based on

The $ amount was a fraction of Manafort

[BlancheSplanchnik]

9. I had no idea---I don't even remember that movie!

Lol! Now my curiosity is piqued!


Like I don’t already have a To Watch list a mile long. Oy vey!

[grantcart]

10. It was a mega commercial hit and recruiting for naval aviators went up 500% afyer

They have a sequel coming out but most people don't know that it was based on Cunningham.

I believe but am not certain that Cunningham's prison sentence was the longest for bribing a Congressman

When they searched his home they actually found a price list that he used to tell the contractor how much each of his amendments to fund additional projects would cost.

[brush]

3. Amazing. He thought he was such a slick operator that he could outsmart Mueller...

by lying to him and passing on info to trump while in effin jail.

Some of these guys are not as smart as they think they are.

A lot of them, not surprisingly, ended up in trump's orbit, another not-s-smart guy who thinks he's a genius.

[ffr]

4. When you break the law, get caught, then scam the prosecutor after the fact, yeah, you're F'ed!

[gratuitous]

11. I eagerly await the inevitable:

Manafort squawking that he's being treated like a common criminal.