has concluded a plea deal with gates and that gates is giving them new information. but it s also really interesting, because it could be a prelude to mueller seeking permission from the court to no longer permit manafort on bond and instead requiring him to be held in custody pending trial. that could be very interesting. it would certainly mean that they meant business about the manafort trial at this point. now, they don t as far as i can tell, even though and, again, i m not a lawyer. i look at this way this is described to the judge. this seems like a fairly detailed threat of charges from robert mueller. but this doesn t actually represent the government, the special counsel s office, bringing these charges. it s just sort of alerting the court they may be brought in the future? that s exactly right. and because it goes to whether or not manafort is honest about conditions that would secure his release, i think it suggests
our election in 2016, even as we are absorbing this big new indictment and the story that it tells, we ve got new breaking news tonight. from one of the special counsel s other indictments. this has just happened. ever since former trump campaign chair, paul manafort, was indict indeed october on multiple charges including money laundering, his legal team and special counsel s office have been locked in ongoing wrangling about basically his release package. his bail package and the hermes ter terms of his house arrest. paul manafort has never been fully released from house arrest. the mueller team hasn t been satisfied with what manafort has offered to put up as security to be let out. they have gone back and forth on this for a while. i mean, the basic idea of the bond is, you have to put up $10 million so if you run to evade prosecution, to skip out on your
court s initial bail determination. that criminal conduct includes a series of bank frauds and bank fraud conspiracies, including criminal conduct relating to the mortgage on manafort s property in virginia, which is part of the subject of the bail discussion. the government has secured substantial evidence that manafort secured this through false and fraudulent representations through the federal savings bank. for example, manafort provided the bank with doctored profit and loss statements, overstating its income by millions of dollars. at the next bail hearing, we can proffer additional evidence related to this, and the other bank frauds and conspiracies which the court may find relevant to the bail risk posed by manafort, as well as the risk the court may close to secure his release. respectfully submitted, robert s. mueller iii, special counsel. now, that s dramatic. it s not clear from this filing whether robert mueller intends to charge paul manafort in connection with these newl
joining us now is joyce vance for the northern district of alabama. joyce, this is a lot to absorb, thank you for helping us understand it. sure, happy to be here with you. i m going to ask you to stay after we take a break because i want to talk to you more broadly about what we learned from the conspiracy. there is so much in it. i want to ask you about this breaking news. i was not expecting to see that we were getting not exactly new charges but allegations of new criminal conduct against paul a manafort tonight. what do you make of this including the timing? it s awfully interesting. one possible conclusion is that this means mueller concluded a plea deal with gates and gates is giving them new information but also really interesting because it could be a prelude to no longer permit manafort to be on bond and instead him being held in custody pending trial.
you. i m going to ask you to stay after we take a break because i want to talk to you more broadly about what we learned from the conspiracy. the russia conspiracy indictment that we got today. there is so much in it. i want to ask you about this breaking news. i was not expecting to see that we were getting not exactly new charges but allegations of new criminal conduct against paul manafort tonight. what do you make of this including the timing? it s awfully interesting. one possible conclusion is that this means mueller concluded a concluded a plea deal with gates and that gates is giving them new information. but it s also real interesting because it could be a prelude to no longer permit manafort to be on bond and instead him being held in custody pending trial. that could be interesting. it would certainly mean that they meant business about the