Typically thats the mob but it could be other stuff, too. In 2011, a rico lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of new york about an alleged financial scream that involved a whole bunch of ukrainians and russians and one guy who ended up running the donald trump for President Campaign in 2016 and he denied having anything to do with it. And the suit ultimately did not succeed, but it has the terms of that lawsuit, the scheme that was alleged in that lawsuit has continued to resonate in the news for a few years now. And right now, with tonights news it is ringing like a loud bell on a cold night. The scheme sketched out by this lawsuit, this rico lawsuit said that Vladimir Putins russian state run gas company made a ridiculous deal with a ukrainian oligarch, and technically the deal involved that guy buying and selling gas between russia and ukraine. But what the deal really was was a way to dump billions of dollars in the pocket of that ukrainian oligarch for a specific purpose. T
Himself and then this. President trumps lawyers are exploring ways to limit or undercut special counsel robert s. Mueller iiis russian investigation. Building a case against what they allege are conflict of interest and the president s authority to grant pardons according to people familiar with the effort. The question is, pardon for what . You know, don, so Many Democrats again and even people in the Republican Party want the process to play out. But there are democrats who are saying that this president is not acting like man who is innocent. And the question is, why all this now . And it makes you wonder, there aresome questions out here, and it makes you wonder what has been uncovered. They are talking about his businesses. And now the question is, you know, has anything been taken from those businesses like hard drives. But you know, don, there are other options on the table, beyond the ones you were just mentioning that have been reporting, the breaking news. Ive been hearing fr
Dramatic thing which turns out to have dramatic consequences. Its an important point in the investigation. Must have been an incredible moment for Paul Manafort and his family and his defense team and probably for everybody involved in the Trump Campaign when that raid happened. But what remains the most perplexing thing to me about the july 26th fbi raid on Paul Manaforts house is that none of his neighbors said anything about it for two weeks. And maybe not even then. The first report that that fbi raid had happened at manaforts house was a full two weeks after it happened. And when the Washington Post broke that scoop, it wasnt like they, you know, were turning up a document or they found that someone had said a thing to somebody else. No. They were reporting on a largescale predawn physical thing that the fbi did in a public place with other people around. Nobody peeped. And its not like he lived a mile and a half down . Driveway and he was down in the holler and nobody could see w
But what remains the most perplexing thing to me about the july 26th fbi raid on Paul Manaforts house is that none of his neighbors said anything about it for two weeks. And maybe not even then. The first report that that fbi raid had happened at manaforts house was a full two weeks after it happened. When the Washington Post broke that scoop, it wasnt like they were turning up a document or they found that someone had said a thing to somebody else. No. Th they were reporting on a large predawn physical thing that the fbi did in a public place with other people around. Nobody peopled and its not like he lived a mile and a half down some driveway and he was down a hall, nobody could see what was happening. Nobody said anything for two weeks. And now we know that the very next day, the day after the fbi raid, also in public at the airport at Dulles Airport in washington, d. C. , the day after that fbi raid, we now found out the fbi arrested a Trump Campaign Foreign Policy advisor who was
Anywhere. Their trial is set for may. They both have to put up millions to secure their bond, 10 million for manafort, 5 million for gates. Manafort tried to sue the government to get them to drop the charge against them but to disempanel the special counsel Robert Mueller. He wasnt appointed properly. Now, nobody thinks that lawsuit from manafort is going anywhere, and that raised the question of why he did it. Why did manafort and his lawyers go through the time and expense of filing that lawsuit when it was nothing anybody was going to take seriously . It just really looked like a very desperate move. Whats Paul Manafort feeling so desperate about . Today Paul Manafort and rick gates got sued by a putinlinked Russian Oligarch they used to do business with. Oleg deripaska. They tried to do several big business deals together. At least one of those deals appears to have gone wrong. From what we can tell, it seems like deripaska gave manafort and his company many millions of dollars, 1