Why hasn't the DoJ charged Paul Manafort in his betrayal of America to Russian?

[Botany]

Paul Manafort just admitted to selling out America by passing on the Trump Campaign's data
analytics to the Russian agent Konstantin Kilimnik and that let Russia rat fuck the 2016 elections
and that has gotten almost no press coverage. Manafort justified his actions by saying I did it
for money.

Liberal Media

Trump's pardon of Manafort should not cover those crimes.

A longtime associate of former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign chief Paul Manafort gave Russian intelligence agencies “sensitive information on polling and campaign strategy” during the election that year, the U.S. Treasury Department said.

Manafort’s associate, Konstantin Kilimnik, “also sought to promote the narrative that Ukraine, not Russia, had interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election,” the department said Thursday as the Biden administration announced new sanctions on Russia, Kilimnik and others.

Those sanctions relate in part to Russia’s alleged effort to affect the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/15/trump-campaign-chief-paul-manafort-employee-kilimnik-gave-russia-election-data.html

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In an interview with Business Insider, former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort admitted he was in contact with the Russians and shared information during the former president's 2016 presidential run.

For years, questions have been raised about Russian involvement in the campaign that saw the New York businessman beat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Manafort is now stating that he handed polling data over to the Russians -- in particular to "Konstantin Kilimnik, a longtime business associate with suspected ties to Russian intelligence."

According to the report, "Kilimnik then passed the data on to Russian spies, according to the US Treasury Department, which has characterized the data as 'sensitive information on polling and campaign strategy.'"

In the interview, Manafort excused his actions stating he wasn't looking for help getting Trump elected and did it purely to make money, with Business Insider reporting, "Manafort told Insider that he directed his deputy, Rick Gates, to feed Kilimnik polling data via email to 'keep Konstantin informed.' The goal was to use his access to Trump to drum up business for himself.

https://www.salon.com/2022/08/08/paul-manafort-admits-he-shared-campaign-info-with-russian-agent-purely-to-make-money_partner/

[mopinko]

1. cuz he flipped?

of all them, i'd expect him to be the 1st to turn. and he's the key to allllll this.

[Qutzupalotl]

6. They tried imprisoning him for other crimes to get him to flip

but he refused.

[Effete Snob]

2. Aside from what crime you believe this to have been....

...is the question of whether the default five year statute of limitations on federal crimes does or does not apply to whatever it is you believe the crime to have been.



https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3282

18 U.S. Code § 3282

(a) In General.—

Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, no person shall be prosecuted, tried, or punished for any offense, not capital, unless the indictment is found or the information is instituted within five years next after such offense shall have been committed.

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I'm pretty sure that 2016 was six years ago.

But it may be helpful to explain what law is broken by selling political campaign data to Russians.

[Botany]

3. thanx

Can they still go after Manafort for the money he got from Russia?

[Effete Snob]

4. What money?

First off, except for certain specific types of transactions and people, it is not generally illegal to do business with people in Russia and make money, and wasn't in 2016 either.

The article claims "The goal was to use his access to Trump to drum up business for himself." Whether he was successful in that endeavor is unstated.

His finances were pretty much gone over with a fine-toothed comb in the prosecution against him for tax evasion on the substantial amounts he had made from his consulting work with pro-Russian Ukrainians and the various mechanisms he used to domesticate those amounts. If there had been similar transactions involving Russians, it would certainly have shaken out of the tree during his previous prosecution and conviction, for which he was pardoned.

[Ocelot II]

5. Statute of limitations, probably.

[Botany]

7. You are mostly likely right about the statute of limitations but what gets me is that the Manafort..

... Kilimnik connections were well known and not damn thing is gonna happen to him.

[FoxNewsSucks]

8. There are more important concerns.,

Laptops and emails, for example.

Corporate media doesn't have time left to inform the public about this, so it can apparently just stay under the rug where it was swept.

[Irish_Dem]

9. The refusal to prosecute those who have compromised US security is more shocking than the treason.

Or if prosecuted they get a slap on the wrist.