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deminks

(11,014 posts)
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 07:21 PM Sep 2017

With a Picked Lock and a Threatened Indictment, Muellers Inquiry Sets a Tone

Source: NYT

WASHINGTON — Paul J. Manafort was in bed early one morning in July when federal agents bearing a search warrant picked the lock on his front door and raided his Virginia home. They took binders stuffed with documents and copied his computer files, looking for evidence that Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, set up secret offshore bank accounts. They even photographed the expensive suits in his closet.

The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, then followed the house search with a warning: His prosecutors told Mr. Manafort they planned to indict him, said two people close to the investigation.

The moves against Mr. Manafort are just a glimpse of the aggressive tactics used by Mr. Mueller and his team of prosecutors in the four months since taking over the Justice Department’s investigation into Russia’s attempts to disrupt last year’s election, according to lawyers, witnesses and American officials who have described the approach. Dispensing with the plodding pace typical of many white-collar investigations, Mr. Mueller’s team has used what some describe as shock-and-awe tactics to intimidate witnesses and potential targets of the inquiry.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/us/politics/mueller-russia-investigation.html

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With a Picked Lock and a Threatened Indictment, Muellers Inquiry Sets a Tone (Original Post) deminks Sep 2017 OP
And here we go! pnwmom Sep 2017 #1
No shock. Promee Sep 2017 #2
On Lawrence O'Donnell now... forgotmylogin Sep 2017 #19
When Bobby Three Sticks takes down Donny Two Scoops, then and only then will my faith be restored Mr. Ected Sep 2017 #3
So true,until then, Wellstone ruled Sep 2017 #5
Isn't it ironic that the election of a Republican president led to the Civil war? TexasProgresive Sep 2017 #11
Hand-to-hand combat on the streets. Urban warfare. SusanaMontana41 Sep 2017 #26
I had to Google Bobby Three Sticks. CrispyQ Sep 2017 #24
A lawyer once told me Roy Rolling Sep 2017 #4
Indeed. Promee Sep 2017 #6
Possibly the fate of the species in his hands. byronius Sep 2017 #13
Agree. eom SusanaMontana41 Sep 2017 #25
k and r.....nt Stuart G Sep 2017 #7
Mueller has had to rent a warehouse to store all the info he has been BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #8
"He is going to need to rent several warehouses." bagelsforbreakfast Sep 2017 #9
Ha ha, nice visual analogy! BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #10
I'm pretty sure that was Borowitz's satire. herding cats Sep 2017 #12
I have no idea, I wish I could find the post again. BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #14
Give me a moment. herding cats Sep 2017 #16
It was posted under General Discussion around noon. BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #17
I don't have the DU post I read, but I do have the article it linked to. herding cats Sep 2017 #18
That's it! I thought it was real since I wouldn't be surprised. BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #20
That's the sign of good satire. herding cats Sep 2017 #21
That was actually satire Not Ruth Sep 2017 #27
Well, Mueller is dealing with criminal gangsters not fooled Sep 2017 #15
Mob nicknames :-) FakeNoose Sep 2017 #28
Video: NYT: Paul Manafort Wiretapped Under Secret Court Orders L. Coyote Sep 2017 #22
Be afraid, all you greedy, conniving, traitors, be very afraidd. Nitram Sep 2017 #23
 

Promee

(69 posts)
2. No shock.
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 07:27 PM
Sep 2017

You don't pussyfoot around when your target is a Russian-installed president caught up in the largest scandal in US political history.

You employ the "Sean Connery in 'The Untouchables'" strategy and you accept no substitutes.

forgotmylogin

(7,528 posts)
19. On Lawrence O'Donnell now...
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 10:20 PM
Sep 2017

He was saying that they wouldn't have gotten a search warrant nor permission to enter forcefully (pick the lock) unless there was enough evidence of a crime and enough suspicion Manafort would try to destroy evidence.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
3. When Bobby Three Sticks takes down Donny Two Scoops, then and only then will my faith be restored
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 07:31 PM
Sep 2017

Until then, I feel like, with the help of American confederates known as the Republican Party, our country has been invaded and held captive by Russian interlopers.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
5. So true,until then,
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 07:35 PM
Sep 2017

we just have to keep the refreshments stocked and the Chips and Salsa close by. And yes,the leadership of the GOP are complicit wanted a permanent majority even if it meant subverting the Constitution.

TexasProgresive

(12,157 posts)
11. Isn't it ironic that the election of a Republican president led to the Civil war?
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 08:44 PM
Sep 2017

And now, the r'puklican't party is the party of confederate wannabes.

CrispyQ

(36,464 posts)
24. I had to Google Bobby Three Sticks.
Tue Sep 19, 2017, 02:40 PM
Sep 2017
Mueller is known by some as “Bobby Three Sticks” because of his full name - Robert Mueller III


Roy Rolling

(6,917 posts)
4. A lawyer once told me
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 07:32 PM
Sep 2017

He said (paraphrased) "You don't threaten, you act. You don't threaten to sue somebody, you sue somebody. You do it. That gets their attention."

Bob Mueller is "just doing it" while the targets of the investigation are all talk. He is so far ahead of them it should give every American hope justice will be served.

 

Promee

(69 posts)
6. Indeed.
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 07:38 PM
Sep 2017

Much greater value in just serving the paperwork than telling them it's coming first and letting them prepare.

I hope Mueller is keenly aware that this is the most important thing he will do in his life.

BigmanPigman

(51,590 posts)
8. Mueller has had to rent a warehouse to store all the info he has been
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 07:53 PM
Sep 2017

been gathering (so far that is). Wait until they get all of the Facebook evidence. He is going to need to rent several warehouses.

 

bagelsforbreakfast

(1,427 posts)
9. "He is going to need to rent several warehouses."
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 08:05 PM
Sep 2017

Imagine if they find a sled named "Rosebud" in one of them!

herding cats

(19,564 posts)
12. I'm pretty sure that was Borowitz's satire.
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 09:03 PM
Sep 2017

Which I'm sure you knew, but others may not so I'm mentioning it here.

It was hilarious though! I adore Borowitz!

herding cats

(19,564 posts)
18. I don't have the DU post I read, but I do have the article it linked to.
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 10:11 PM
Sep 2017

This may be something entirely different than what you saw though. I saw another post in GD eluding to what you said which wasn't in reference to Borowitz satire I'm sure.

Mueller Rents Giant Warehouse to Store Evidence Against Trump

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Robert Mueller is renting a massive warehouse facility in suburban Virginia to accommodate the approximately forty cubic tons of evidence against Donald Trump that the independent counsel’s investigation is generating on a daily basis.
Employing over two thousand workers in a warehouse the size of seven football fields, the Mueller investigation has become the fastest-growing sector of the U.S. economy, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Working twelve-hour shifts, the members of Mueller’s evidence-storage team rarely leave the warehouse, where the punishing task of filing mountains of evidence against Trump proceeds around the clock.
“It’s like a city all its own,” one warehouse worker said. “There are people working in the Michael Flynn section who’ve never met the people working in the Paul Manafort section.”
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/mueller-rents-giant-warehouse-to-store-evidence-against-trump

BigmanPigman

(51,590 posts)
20. That's it! I thought it was real since I wouldn't be surprised.
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 10:22 PM
Sep 2017

I was fooled...shame on me! The Onion always fools me too. I guess it was wishful thinking. Thanks for your efforts!

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
15. Well, Mueller is dealing with criminal gangsters
Mon Sep 18, 2017, 09:59 PM
Sep 2017

so sounds about right to me.

I just hope that a seasoned crook like Manafort hadn't already destroyed or secreted the evidence. Of course, the difficulty of hiding all the money he's amassed over the years by being a well-dressed thug for hire--so that it's absolutely untraceable--probably is his vulnerability. May it prove his downfall.

FakeNoose

(32,639 posts)
28. Mob nicknames :-)
Wed Sep 20, 2017, 02:34 PM
Sep 2017

Mueller - Bobby Three Sticks
Trump - Donnie Two Scoops

They have been used quite frequently on DU lately.



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