Manafort bail $10,000,000

[madaboutharry]

Gates bail $5,000,000. Court is now discussing home confinement and electronic monitoring. They are considered flight risks. Per MSNBC.

[MattP]

1. They should sieze his money as ill gotten gains like a dope dealer

Alot of it is blood money

[snooper2]

4. They will if he is convicted. It is all in the indictment

Does anybody here read the whole thing? It's only like 15-20 pages to go through each of the three released today.

[csziggy]

8. Suspected drug money does not rely on a conviction to be seized

In fact, seizure of money often is done with no charges being filed. Of course, that is for people who have little other than the cash in their pockets, not for people with millions in multiple accounts or wealthy friends who might help them fight to get their money back.

[EarthFirst]

17. "Civil asset forfeiture"

...and you are correct; it's done for far less when the plebs are involved.

Sometimes even during a simple traffic stop.

[KWR65]

2. If he flees I hope he doesn't go to Russia

He will have a bad stumble down a flight of stairs.

[brooklynite]

3. Step 1. Role yourself up in your carpet; Step 2. Have carpet shipped to Turkey.

[bathroommonkey76]

5. This works in Saturday Morning Turkish cartoons.

[OldHippieChick]

6. Jeffrey Toobin just said this is enormously

high bail for white collar crime. Interesting.

[malaise]

20. Treason is a white collar crime?

Interesting!

[lame54]

7. No bail dammit...

Major F' Up there

[madaboutharry]

10. No bail is usually reserved for violent and dangerous defendants.

[lame54]

12. I'm leaning on your word usually...

Nothing usual about this...

He has the money, means and a place to go

A definite flight risk

[madaboutharry]

13. He has to surrender his passport and

is under house arrest. I wouldn't be surprised if he has to wear an ankle monitor. I would have also loved seeing this arrogant creep in an orange jumpsuit.

[lpbk2713]

9. The dominoes are beginning to fall.

And the line will lead all the way up to Trump the Loser.

[Pope George Ringo II]

11. Dershowitz is going to be heartbroken

That's nothing like what he was expecting.

[Cicada]

15. Defense lawyers, like Dershowitz, praise civil rights even for those they despise

So arguing against prosecution of a creep like doesn’t equate to affection for the accused.

I doubt he likes these Trump people but simply argues that they have civil rights just like the rest of us do. If a prosecutor can ride roughshod over Trump and Manafort then he surely will do the same to those we like, such as Hillary. I think we should cut him slack when he defends the accused.

[elfin]

14. Chump change for his Slavic connections to cover

Passport? Who needs one with his private jet friends who have handsomely paid off those who might report such travel?

Assuming his assets are not available by being locked up in various sketchy banks like Cyprus.

He has major Ukrainian and Russian oligarch connections. He owes them AND they owe him for entree into the river of money via real estate here just to cite one avenue.

I suspect he is quaking and feels in danger of the Russian mob and could be in that crowd of "suspicious" deaths of those who might have a reason to squeal on Putin or others.

[Wounded Bear]

16. This is a bit more than just grabbing their passport...

[lindysalsagal]

18. 10 mill still isn't enough, when you know he's laudered 10 times that.

[workinclasszero]

19. If they post bail and walk

They better watch their back for agent's of Putin.

Accidents happen all the time you know?

[Ken Burch]

21. Manafort could probably afford that.

n/t.