WASHINGTON (CN) Outgoing President Donald Trump issued a pardon to former campaign manager-turned-convict Paul Manafort on Wednesday.
Manafort was convicted in August 2018 in a federal court in Virginia on eight counts of bank and tax fraud, failing to file a report for a foreign bank account and falsifying his income on federal tax returns.
The president also issued pardons to Charles Kushner, father of Jared Kushner, and Roger Stone, a long time loyalist to President Trump, friend and former business partner of Paul Manafort.
During his trial, prosecutors unraveled Manafort’s role in hiding millions of dollars that flowed through a complex web of foreign bank accounts; records of funds that he often had doctored to defraud tax preparers and bankers.
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EUR/USD may find it hard to recover if US fiscal stimulus is derailed.
End-of-year flows, Brexit and data are in play ahead of Christmas.
Wednesday’s four-hour chart is showing bears are gaining ground.
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A disgrace” – Outgoing President Donald Trump’s words on the stimulus bill he had urged Congress to pass cause confusion in markets. The Commander-in-Chief wants Americans to receive checks worth $2,000 instead of $600 raise fears he will not sign the legislation into law ahead of Christmas.
House Democrats – who crafted the relief package with Senate Republicans – seem to support higher payments,
putting the GOP in a bind. If Trump vetos the bill, the bipartisan majority would override it and turn it into law. However,
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• Former California Rep. Duncan Hunter, another early Trump 2016 supporter who pleaded guilty last December to embezzling campaign funds. Prosecutors had charged Hunter with using more than $250,000 in campaign money on a number of lifestyle expenses, including taking an Uber at 7:40 a.m. on a weekday from the apartment of “Individual 18,” who was notably
not his wife, to his D.C. office.
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• George Papadopoulos, the zero-qualification doofus who served as a “foreign policy adviser” to the Trump 2016 campaign, who pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to federal authorities about the circumstances under which he’d heard that Russia had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. (Papadopoulos has spent the subsequent years arguing that he was the victim of a high-level Obama administration conspiracy, as if anyone in the Obama administration was interested in using the limited time available in their wild and precious life to orchestrate a setup in which an