**BREAKING** CNN- Charges Against Manafort And Gates Include Conspiracy Against The United States

[DemocratSinceBirth]

MANAFORT AND GATES CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY AGAINST U.S., MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS, AND MONEY LAUNDERING

Link To Indictment

https://www.justice.gov/file/1007271/download

[The Blue Flower]

1. Hard rain's about to fall

May justice roll down on them and flatten them.

[0rganism]

42. trickle down justice?

trickle down salaries for a few, trickle down justice for others

[dalton99a]

2. If so, Trump knew nothing about it

[Iliyah]

5. Better yet, it was HRC and Obama

and the whole Democratic Party.

[LisaL]

8. He's never even met Manafort, believe me.

[Madam45for2923]

3. Us the people of the United States of America demand to be made whole.

[BigmanPigman]

4. When I heard them read the list and heard

"conspiracy" I screamed!

[Ohiya]

6. Conspiracy against the United States?

Is there another name for this?

Maybe starting with a T and ending with reason?

[get the red out]

9. That was my first though!

WOW, Mueller's got some shit on him!

[Ohiya]

14. Great minds and all that!

[davekriss]

21. The conspiracy charge is not treason

As near as I can tell, it’s 923.18 USC paragraph 371, which carries a maximum of 5 years in prison. I hope I’m wrong - any legal experts know more?

[Ohiya]

23. Well we can always hope for the best...

...or the worst!

[ismnotwasm]

7. Holy Moly

That’s some serious shit right there.

[Kaleva]

10. I was going to say "Holy Shit!"

[DesertRat]

11. Happy Muellerween!

[Catherine Vincent]

22. lol

[workinclasszero]

12. (CONSPIRACY AGAINST U.S.) Is that espionage?

Because that carries the death penalty I believe.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. It stems from their scheme to hide taxable money, presumably gained illegally.

[workinclasszero]

16. Oh okay thanks

[DemocratSinceBirth]

19. LOL

[OliverQ]

15. It was conspiracy to conceal foreign payments from the US government.

Not sure if that falls under espionage or something else.

[workinclasszero]

17. Thanks for the info

Probably not but still serious charges looks like.

[OliverQ]

31. Very serious. The money laundering charge alone carries up to 20 years in prison.

And that's probably one of the less serious charges he'll face.

[workinclasszero]

34. Gee charges like that might lead a person to make a deal with the prosecutor

[former9thward]

18. None of the charges have anything to do with the Russia investigation.

It is all about lobbying and other matters resulting from their activities in Ukraine. Some reach back to 2008.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

24. Thank you for bringing that to our attention and kicking my thread.

[former9thward]

38. Always want to help a friend.

So another kick

[DemocratSinceBirth]

43. Please kick this thread

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029771648



We can become friends, I hope.

[Demsrule86]

28. Give it time...a great day for the good guys (not Trump or Trumpettes)

[OliverQ]

32. Some of these charges were crimes that happened while he was chairman of the campaign.

So while it doesn't specifically mention the campaign, it's related.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

35. Actually, they DO! 3rd indictee plead guilty about "dirt on Hillary" used to entice Don Jr.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/george-papadopolous-trump-russia-probe_us_59f7354be4b07fdc5fbfa210
(emphasis added)

WASHINGTON ― A foreign policy adviser to President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has pleaded guilty to a charge of lying to FBI agents.

George Papadopoulos, 30, pleaded guilty on Oct. 5, 2017, but the case wasn’t unsealed until Monday, when two other Trump associates were indicted by a federal grand jury. Papadopoulos reached a plea deal with prosecutors, and has since been cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Prosecutors’ statement of the offense alleges Papadopoulos “made material false statements and material omissions” during a Jan. 27, 2017, interview with the FBI. He was arrested July 27. Prosecutors agreed to recommend between no prison time to six months under the plea agreement.

Papadopoulos told the FBI an overseas professor had “told him about the Russians possessing ‘dirt’ on then-candidate Hillary Clinton in the form of ‘thousands of emails,’ but stated multiple times that he learned that information prior to joining the campaign,” according to court documents. In fact, Papadopoulos was contacted after he learned he’d be joining the campaign, and the professor only mentioned the “thousands of emails” after he’d been on the Trump campaign for more than a month.

[Cosmocat]

36. Thank you

this is pretty significant ...

[MelissaB]

20. Yeah. A BFD.

BIG f*cking deal, indeed.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. Just the beginning.

And low-hanging fruit to flush out other players who might decide to turn state witness.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

26. We can safely say we're happy we're not Paul Manafort or Rick Gates.

[BumRushDaShow]

27. Or Kushner

at some point, because he would be a link to the whole money-laundering thing as well. One wonders about his sudden trip to Saudi Arabia last week for "Middle East Peace talks" (he apparently just got back Saturday).

[DemocratSinceBirth]

29. In any case it's more bad news cycles for the most unpopular president in history*

*at this point in his presidency.

[BumRushDaShow]

30. RICO

will be interesting if used at some point.

[workinclasszero]

41. RICO

Oh yes let it be so!!!

[Johnny2X2X]

33. FOX NEWS Headline soon

"Clinton Campaign Manager, Paul Manafort, indicted for Conspiracy against the US! What did Hillary know?"

[Vinca]

37. LOL - I don't know whether your post is real or satire.

[anneboleyn]

40. Fox is literally trying to argue that "Hillary is worse" now. "Conspiracy against US" no biggie

[Achilleaze]

39. republican traitors against America suck...

lowlife scum betraying the USA and pretending to be patriots wearing their phony, made-in-China republican flag lapel pins. Ptoooey. I spit upon republican TreasonWeasels and their fake patriotism, authentic treason.