sure, at least that s the position that the paul manafort team presented to them. but as the judge pointed out, it suspect quite that high of a threshold. but he didn t give them that much more guidance than that. maybe that argument got to at least one person, and i know you ve been going through the questions, and if you match them up against the trial as argued, you think there s a tax fraud section, a banking fraud, you think they may be through with the tax fraud section again? tea leaf warnings definitely apply. but asking the question about the foreign bank accounts, that s a second subset of charges. there are 18 charges, 18 counts in all. the first four are tax return charges that paul manafort filed tax returns. if they re going in order, it would seem like they ve moved beyond that and they re now dealing with the foreign bank account questions, as well. they saw a lot of evidence, they had someone from the treasury
four other witnesses immunity in this case because they really want to get manafort. so her testimony is very valuable. melissa: is it just about avoiding taxes some people have said this looks like money laundering. what is your opinion? money laundering wasn t charged in this document. it s tax evasion and banking fraud. the idea of, you know, washing money to make it look legitimate certainly comes into play here. the idea is he getting this money, using it to pay bills on his house. buying real estate and things of that nature to make the money look legitimate it may not necessarily have come from an illegitimate source which typically that s what money laundering is. that s sort of the next case. this case is in the eastern district of virginia. there is another case coming in d.c. that may hit on elements of where this money came from. melissa: against him? correct. melissa: you try to tie all of this back to president trump. and is it just that so these are crimes that
manafort facing 18 couldn t of tax evasion and a banking fraud. today landscaper testified he paid half a million dollars to maintain the grounds at one of manafort s seven homes. manafort s home in the hampton s has a massive upon, big waterfall and some massive red and white flower bed in the shape of an bed. an $18,000 ostrich coat. robert mueller s prosecutors fighting to show photos like these to the jury. so far this judge here, judge ellis saying no, that essentially being wealthy is not a crime. this shouldn t be about his lavish lifestyle. today manafort s long time bookkeeper took the stand testifying no, 14 times in a row, that she did not know about manafort s 14 offshore shell company bank accounts. also today mueller s star
government, that trial is next. this trial has only to do with tax fraud and banking fraud. ones janakovich fled the ukraine, the money dried up. shepard: that s the point when he went to work for donald trump. when the russian money dried up and there was no more job for victor janakovich, the guy supporting him because the guy is supporting him, whoops, he s heading to russia, when that money ran out, he started working for future president trump. that s right. he had been making millions on millions of dollars and the allegation of which is that he funneled those assets to foreign bank accounts and used it to fuel his lavish lifestyle. you have to see the exhibit list that the government put out. it lays out to the extend that
people familiar with the matter tell the wall street journal cohen is frustrated they haven t offered to pay his legal fees. he paid $228,000 to cover bills in the russian investigation but not for personal business dealings. cohen is reportedly under investigation for wire and banking fraud and campaign finance violations. he has not been charged and continues to deny wrongdoing. still ahead. japan makes history. senegal impressed. all of the highlights from day six of world cup next.