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On Wednesday, December 23, President Donald Trump announced 26 new pardons, which included longtime ally Roger Stone, former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and White House senior adviser and his son-in-law Jared Kushner s father, Charles Kushner.
Manafort and Stone are two of the most high-profile and widely condemned former advisers of the POTUS, both of whom were accused by special counsel Robert Mueller, went to trial and were convicted by juries of multiple crimes.
As CNN reports, Manafort, who is serving home confinement, had admitted to his crimes and initially agreed to cooperate with Mueller. But then he lied to prosecutors. He spent close to two years in prison for bank and tax fraud, illegal foreign lobbying and witness tampering conspiracies before being released due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
that the gates case is gone going and that includes several ongoing investigations. that could be the inauguration. he was the deputy campaign chairman. it could be related to the campaignering with don t know if it is new york state, it is not good news for the president that this case is ongoing. we do know one of mueller s top prosecutors is leaving the team. steve bannon once referred to him as the lebron jail of money laundering investigations. what does this signal to you about the focus of mueller s investigation? so weissman was the lead prosecutor on the manafort case. he also appeared in the gates case. it makes some sense that weissman would leave now manafort is done federally. and that he would pass this over to greg andres, his deputy, to
now i can tell you exactly how it happened word for word. you ready? okay. courtroom deputy, your honor, good morning. this morning we have case number 17-201-1, the united states verdict paul manafort. mr. manafort is present in the courtroom. will parties please approach the lectern, identify yourselves for the record. good morning, your honor. mr. weissmann for the government and with me is greg andres, kyle freeny, jeannie rhee and omer meisel and jeff weiland from the fbi. the judge, all right, good morning. and good morning, your honor, richard westling, thomas zehnle and kevin downing on behalf of mr. manafort. good morning. and i note that mr. manafort is president. the judge. i understand the defendant wishes to enter a plea of guilty, is that correct?
in a few weeks. you know, cooperating, i suppose, still an option for him. evan, thank you very much. with me now, my guests are back. harry, back to you. eight guilty counts against manafort. ten counts they could not reach a verdict on. who won tonight? the special counsel mueller and his team. greg andres, the prosecutor. the ten counts on which the jury was unable to reach a verdict. those are open counts. they ll sit out there perhaps forever if the government feels they re not necessary for sentencing and under a quirk of our constitutional laws, the conduct for which that related to the hung jury counts can be considered as part of sentencing. so the sentence could be the same as if he was convicted on all of the counts. the president saying that this is a witch hunt and he s saying this had nothing to do with his campaign but if you read through the charges that manafort was