According to the mlb, rodriguez not only abusd banned substances but also tried to destroy evidence once an investigation was under way. In typical achlt rod fashion, arod is placing the blame on everyone but arod. Theres more than one party that benefits from me not ever stepping back on the field and thats not my teammates and it is not the yankee fans. When all this stuff is going on in the background and people are finding creative ways to cancel your contract and stuff like that, i think thats concerning. The man accused of cheefting claiming hes being cheated out of his 90 million contract. Joining me today, Washington Bureau chief for buzz feed, john stanton, founder and president of the center for social inclusion, maya wiley. From sirius xm, chris mad dog ruse sew and Benjamin Wallace wells. The happy hothead, something that could possibly be said about alex rodriguez. Mad dog. How about arod trying to blame the yankees . Who else is he going to blame . Right . Never himself.
End up being very, very relevant in that trial, depending on how the judge works these things out. And they were both hashed out today in court in front of the judge. The first is that Paul Manaforts defense team doesnt want his second federal felony trial to be in washington, d. C. Paul manaforts defense lawyer today speaking to the judge. Mr. Wesling. This is one of manaforts defense lawyers. Quote, just to give the court notice we will file this week a motion for change of venue. We wanted to just give you notice, your honor, and not be in a situation where that came tomorrow or at the end of the week so you would be surprised by it. So and the judge interrupts and says, where do you want to go . Mr. Westling says, i dont know that i have the answer to that yet, judge. It may be that there is no place. But we feel it is important to make the record on the issue and to brief it for the court. The judge says, all right. I understand that. I believe that the overwhelming majority of th
Mr. Wesling. Quote, just to give the court notice we will file this week a motion for change of venue. We wanted to just give you notice, your honor, and not be in a situation where that came tomorrow or at the end of the week so you would be surprised by it. So and the judge interrupts and says, where do you want to go . Mr. Westling says, i dont know that i have the answer to that yet, judge. It may be that there is no place. But we feel it is important to make the record on the issue and to brief it for the court. The judge says, all right. I understand that. I believe that the overwhelming majority of the publicity about this case is national. So you can file what you need to file and i wont prejudge it. But i think the goal of the jury questionnaire is to everybody able to us find a fair and impartial jury. And this jurisdiction, meaning federal court in d. C. , has had very high profile cases before where we have been able through a jury questionnaire, followed by individual voir
Judge. The first is that Paul Manaforts defense team doesnt want his second felony trial to be in washington, d. C. Paul manaforts defense lawyer today speaking to the judge. Mr. Wesling. Quote, just to give the court notice we will file this week a motion for change of venue. We wanted to just give you notice, your honor, and not be in a situation where that came tomorrow or at the end of the week so you would be surprised by it. So and the judge interrupts and says, where do you want to go . Mr. Westling says, i dont know that i have the answer to that yet, judge. It may be that there is no place. But we feel it is important to make the record on the issue and to brief it for the court. The judge says, all right. I understand that. I believe that the overwhelming majority of the publicity about this case is national. So you can file what you need to file and i wont prejudge it. But i think the goal of the jury questionnaire is to everybody able to us find a fair and impartial jury. A
24 1 2 Year Prison Sentence for Paul Manafort. Plus, fines and restitution that ranged from millions of dollars to tens of millions of dollars. Now, keep in mind though that sentencing recommendation friday night was just for the one judge, just for the one judge who is hearing the Paul Manafort case in virginia. That is not the only federal case against Paul Manafort. By the end of this week we are expecting Robert Mueller and his prosecutors to also make their case for the sentence that they believe manafort should get from the other federal judge who is hearing the other federal criminal case against Paul Manafort in the neighboring jurisdiction of washington, d. C. That fairly dire circumstance, the fact that 69 1 2yearold Paul Manafort is now looking down the twin barrels of a sentence from the federal judge in virginia and then another sentence from this federal judge in d. C. , that obviously is a crisis of his own making. Because it was manafort and his defense team who elected