Kremlin notes U.S. case against ex-Trump aides does not accuse Russia

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters




OCTOBER 31, 2017 / 6:46 AM / UPDATED 24 MINUTES AGO

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Tuesday it had noted that U.S. charges against President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and another aide, Rick Gates, did not point the finger at Russia over alleged meddling in U.S. politics.

Federal investigators probing alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, something Moscow denies, charged Manafort and Gates with money laundering on Monday.

Despite the charges being brought as part of a five-month-old investigation into alleged Russian efforts to tilt the election in Trump’s favor and into potential collusion by Trump aides, the charges, some going back over a decade, centered on Manafort’s work for Ukraine’s former government, not Russia‘s.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow had noted the absence of allegations against Russia in the indictment, saying Moscow had always said it had never meddled in the U.S. election.


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[Historic NY]

1. Coming soon.

[Blue_Tires]

2. "......YET"

[rurallib]

3. basically the same talking point as the White House has

wonder how that happened?

[dalton99a]

4. Magic

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Except the payments to Manafort came from Kremlin-associated Russian oligarchs

Manafort was paid at least $28.5 million, far more than the $12.5 million reported last year, from “black money” funds run by the Party of the Regions, according to a source with knowledge about the investigation. The Party of the Regions served as the pro-Kremlin political base for Ukraine's former President Viktor Yanukovych, who fled to Russia in 2014.

There are at least two other funds the Ukrainian investigation identified, and maybe more, each allegedly supported by oligarchs with ties to the Kremlin.

Ukraine’s domestic intelligence service, the SBU, infiltrated Manafort’s operation at the time he was working for Yanukovych. An internal report states that Manafort was paid $600,000 a month over four years, reaching the $28.5 million total, according to a source who has seen the report.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/10/31/manafort-pro-russia-party-report/816242001/

And the guilty plea from Papdopoulos, which covers extensive Russian interference in the US election, dangling "thousands" of Democratic emails in front of him, is just glossed over with "I don't believe it", despite Papadopoulos confessing to it.

[Nitram]

6. A little premature to make that assumption, don't you think? They sound worried.