Mueller Barred From Presenting Tons of Evidence Against Manafort in Upcoming D.C. Case

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Law & Crime


by Colin Kalmbacher | 12:15 pm, August 30th, 2018

Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s attempt to explore various areas of alleged criminality by Paul Manafort was shut down on multiple fronts by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in a minute order released Thursday morning. The order reflected Judge Jackson’s decision-making that was fully outlined during a hearing held on Tuesday.

So, what’s left out for now? Quite a bit.

In a June filing with the court, prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said that Mueller’s team would submit evidence regarding “a multi-million dollar payment” made to an unidentified law firm–referred to as “Law Firm A” in the evidentiary filing–by way of “international wires originating from a Manafort-controlled offshore account.” This evidence, Weissmann argued, would show that Manafort and his co-conspirators attempted “to avoid certain limitations imposed by Ukrainian public procurement law.”

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/mueller-barred-from-presenting-tons-evidence-against-manafort-in-upcoming-case/

[Auggie]

1. Isn't there 1500 pieces of separate evidence?

A lot still has to be left.

[OnDoutside]

6. Yes, that appears to be the case. You can only imagine the amount of evidence that they are holding

back.

[thbobby]

2. Just my guess, but

I wonder if Mueller submitted some evidence just to put it in the public realm. Again, just a guess on my part, but Mueller and his team are very intelligent. Perhaps they knew some of their evidence might not be allowed in the court case.

[mitch96]

4. "evidence just to put it in the public realm"

Maybe the shotgun approach? Send out a lot of information and something might stick.Or out there in the realm of public scrutiny?
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[Jarqui]

3. Her rulings did not strike me as that bad or unreasonable

And they have mega tons of evidence left

They probably knew a bunch wouldn't make it but what Manafort was up to is in everyone's head now.

[asiliveandbreathe]

5. Two MOOTS from Judge...prosecutors already have a felony conviction from first trial..

Sounds a lot more like the government didn't need to introduce that evidence anymore because they have successful convictions that they can point to as a matter of fact.

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