Manafort's former son-in-law sentenced for multiple scams

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 5:10 pm CST, Saturday, November 9, 2019

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Paul Manafort's former son-in-law has been sentenced in Los Angeles to nine years in prison for pulling a series of schemes totaling more than $13 million, including one that bilked $3 million from actor Dustin Hoffman.

U.S. District Judge Andre Birotte Jr. ordered Jeffrey Yohai to pay $6.7 million in restitution on Friday for the schemes, some of which were carried out while he was released on bond for similar crimes.

"This is an individual who has an evil mind — I don't know how else to say it," the judge said. "It seems he felt he could do whatever he wants - but that buck stops here."

Yohai pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud for schemes that included renting out luxury homes without the permission of their owners and selling non-existent backstage passes for the Coachella music festival.


Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Manafort-s-former-son-in-law-sentenced-for-14822757.php

[napi21]

1. What's the deal here? Is this a family thing? He's a former SIL. What's the daughter do?

Is she into illegal stuff too? If not, it's got to be a rough time having her father in prison & her Ex.

[sdfernando]

2. I thought Manaforts daughters didn't want anything to do with him.

Of course, that doesn't mean they are squeaky clean, or their husbands either.

[salin]

3. A corrupt twist on the term "Family Values."

Can think of at least another recent prominent family for whom "family values" where this doesn't mean the evangelical code words, but a passing along of the view of extracting as much money as possible from other - despite the legality - cuz "Wealth!!" = the supremacy of money. Not a bit sad to see dude hit a jail sentence.

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. One of his daughters, Jessica, legally changed her last name

to her mother's maiden name, Bond. She's a filmmaker.

[Backseat Driver]

4. More on one of those Airbnb properties in Bel Air

https://la.curbed.com/2018/3/22/17152446/manafort-yohai-airbnb-bel-air-order

The Justice Department’s October indictment against Manafort (for allegedly colluding with Russia in the 2016 presidential election) included some details on an Airbnb business that Manafort ran along with his daughter and Yohai, which they allegedly used to launder money.

Jennifer's marriage didn't last very long...But the story got it wrong - married on an unknown date in 2013 what, no pic of the gown?); divorced in March, 2017. She's apparently now in NY doing film work without charges?

Jeffrey Yohai, who married the former Trump campaign manager's daughter Jessica in 2017,
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/paul-manaforts-former-son-in-law-sentenced-to-9-years-in-prison-for-scamming-more-than-13-million/

More about D. Hoffman and son Jacob, who met Yohai in college in NY...https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-hoffman-manafort-20170727-story.html

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WOW - how do all these sociopathic souls find each other and their victims (who probably aren't angels either)??? Isn't it tough being up top in the middle-class with all those billionaire Trump sharks a-circling??? (that's sarcasm, of course). Ahhh...the blessings of their disdain for the rest of us, huh?

[bucolic_frolic]

8. re: sociopathic souls

Families just don't change that much over several generations. Occupations endure, or morph a bit. Personalities, and ways of raising kids, and even moral values, are passed on. Church affiliations remain the same, and even if one or two become wayward, how different is the next Fundie house of worship?

Military families join up. Salesmen beget marketers. Stevedores sire import-export managers.

Connecticut has an unplumbed reservoir of shady business operatives. I suspect far more attention should be paid to the current generation of crooks' families, 2 or even 3 generations back. The Manafort's and Roger Stones of this world (Connecticut locale, btw) have some common denominators that are unexplored.

[not fooled]

6. Well, they say

women marry their fathers.

[BigmanPigman]

7. Wasn't Flynn's son involved in criminal activity too?

[csziggy]

10. Not sure but I did find this article about Michael Flynn Jr

Flynn worries about son in special counsel probe

By Jim Sciutto and Marshall Cohen, CNN
Updated 10:32 AM ET, Thu November 9, 2017

Washington (CNN)Former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn has expressed concern about the potential legal exposure of his son, Michael Flynn Jr., who, like his father, is under scrutiny by special counsel Robert Mueller, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.

Flynn's concern could factor into decisions about how to respond to Mueller's ongoing investigation. The special counsel is looking into Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign as well as the business dealings of key campaign advisers to President Donald Trump.

Flynn's wife, Lori, shares his concerns about their son's possible legal exposure, according to a person who knows the family.

Interviews conducted by special counsel investigators have included questions about the business dealings of Flynn and his son such as their firm's reporting of income from work overseas, two witnesses interviewed by the team told CNN. The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) requires people acting as agents of foreign entities to publicly disclose their relationship with foreign countries or businesses and financial compensation for such work.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/08/politics/michael-flynn-son-special-counsel-russia-investigation/index.html

[BigmanPigman]

11. That was two years ago. I wonder what happened

with the investigation. I wonder if it is part of Mueller's report. I don't think he was done before Barr shut it down, even though he said this wasn't the case.

[Lonestarblue]

9. Trump only surrounded himself with the best people!

The best frauds, the best liars, the best crooked lawyers, the best at anything illegal. You are the company you keep, and Trump is right there in the muck of criminality.