Paul Manafort and Rick Gates get home detention after pleading not guilty to charges in Russia probe

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory




ERIC W. DOLAN
30 OCT 2017 AT 14:09 ET

Paul Manafort and Rick Gates appeared in federal court on Monday and entered not guilty pleas.

The former Trump campaign officials have been indicted on 12 counts related to hiding foreign payments, including a charge of “conspiracy against the United States.” Manafort and Gate plead not guilty to all charges.

Bond for Manafort was set at $10 million, and bond for Gates was set at $5 million.

The special counsel team said that two men were a flight risk. The parties agreed to home detention. Both men must surrender their passports.

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Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/paul-manafort-and-rick-gates-plead-not-guilty-to-charges-in-russia-probe/

[Wednesdays]

1. They're all flight risks

Watch for a spike in bookings of one - way tickets from Reagan to Moscow.

[Bradical79]

3. Or assasination risks

With the way Russian "diplomats" were dropping like flies, I'd be pretty nervous. Waiting for Manafort to fall out a window while brushing his teeth.

[onetexan]

11. LOL very true but scary isn't it

if i were him i'd watch my back every minute. I'm sure since he's been under investigation he hasn't had a good night's sleep. There'll be many more sleepless nights to come.

[gopiscrap]

19. that's what ran through my head aslo

[Cold War Spook]

30. Boris Nemtsov

killed in Moscow across street from Lubyanka Building, formerly the KGB prison. It happened just at the moment that a street cleaning truck obscured him from the camera on the building. I think Putin must have watched Once Upon a Time In America only in the movie you hear a garbage truck.

[PoliticAverse]

5. If the government thought they were a flight risk they wouldn't have allowed them...

to turn themselves in.

[IronLionZion]

16. Ronald Reagan is rolling over in his grave

seeing what his party has fallen to. Colluding with Russians

[Liberalagogo]

20. As opposed to colluding with

Iranians.

[IronLionZion]

27. That already happened

Iran-contra happened and of course Reagan benefited from the hostage crisis before the election

[Liberalagogo]

29. As was my point.

n/t

[montanacowboy]

2. They have plenty of private jets

to jet away on

All those russkie oligarchs have their own private planes they could use

or how about a Trump plane? bwahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[SeattleVet]

21. Manafort also has plenty of homes...

did they at least mandate that he had to stay in a specific one?

I see they they also had to surrender their passports.

[roamer65]

4. Home detention equals 24/7 FBI monitoring by Agent Mike.

[mobeau69]

6. I hope we actual taxpayers can recoup the costs after the guilty verdicts. n/t

[Honeycombe8]

9. Agent Mike, reporting for duty

[onetexan]

12. is there ankle monitoring?

[emulatorloo]

7. $10 million for bail is a lot of money.

Good. I understand he can't pay with ill-gotten funds.

[bluestarone]

8. wondering about internet usage?

that also should be blocked i hope

[Honeycombe8]

10. They're certainly being monitored, I'm sure.

They'd be fools to do any internet activity they don't want the govt to know.

[bluestarone]

14. i agree

but they could code things just saying. I DON'T TRUST any of the bastards!! But like you said they'd be FOOLS for sure lol

[madokie]

24. Being fools is a given

after all they're associates of tRump which proves my point

[PoliticAverse]

17. Why? If the accused wants to provide the prosecution with more evidence why stop them? n/r

[iluvtennis]

13. Why don't they have ankle bracelets like is done for "blue collar" crimes, why is if different

for these so called white collar crimes. And how much of the bail do they need to pay. For common everyday "blue collar" folks it would be 10% of the bail amount.

(and yes, I deplore classism)

[red dog 1]

15. Do they have Electronic Monitoring?

(Merely surrendering their passports doesn't mean they can't flee)

[angrychair]

18. Couple thoughts

1) FUCK THE JUSTICE SYSTEM! I steal a goddamn pack of gum I’m going to jail. Rich Old White Guy steals and hides millions of dollars and he gets to go home to his mansion and the very real possibility he could sneak away to Russia or any of a dozen small island nations and live in the lap of luxury and beyond the reach of said legal system.

2) that said, nothing would make me happier to see him run as nothing admits guilt like trying to flee to a non-extradition country to avoid court.

[hamsterjill]

22. A question that I haven't seen answered.

Just thinking 'out loud' here...

If they are a flight risk, and I don't doubt that they are - why weren't they a flight risk between Friday when the sealed indictments were announced and today when they reported to the FBI?

I know the sealed indictments didn't name the defendant, but everyone was guessing and many of us, in fact probably MOST of us, knew that Manafort was a very likely candidate.

Do you think they were under FBI surveillance over the weekend? Or was some sort of deal struck that gave Mueller comfort that Manafort and/or Gates would not try to run?

[former9thward]

23. This is not TV

In real life the feds notify white collar suspects that an indictment is coming. They negotiate with the person and/or their lawyer on when/where they will surrender. Normally it is not a problem and it wasn't in this case.

[hamsterjill]

25. Well thank heavens!

The subject of my post was: if they weren’t a flight risk over the weekend, why would they be more so now? Please re-read the last sentence of my post.

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. I dont see why they would be worried at all. Their business partner, trump

is as much of a criminal as they are and will certainly pardon them.

Trump will pardon everybody other than those he cant gain from.

Without a moment of hesitation, none. He has no morals, he is a sociopath.

[BannonsLiver]

28. THEY were probably under surveillance

Any attempt to flee would have resulted in an arrest. It’s possible he could get away but odds are reduced.

[DBoon]

31. "home detention" makes me think of something like this