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well, i was down at the federal koscourthouse, and ther was considerably more activity than usual involving the mueller team. we saw andrew weissman, the lead prosecutor on the manafort case and one of mueller s top deputies, coming into the courthouse. there was comings and goings by another mueller prosecutor by the name of kyle freeney, as well as several fbi agents. and there were signals with them going back and forth into the clerk s office that perhaps the grand jury was preparing to return an indictment. and indeed by the early afternoon, there was a notice posted outside one of the courtrooms that just that had happened, that there had been a session where an indictment had been handed up although it was not immediately clear who was being indicted or why. it certainly seemed like manafort was a live possibility for what would be the second superseding indictment, the third indictment total in washington, d.c. given the very serious tampering allegations that mueller leveled
was being indicted or why, it seems like the possibility of the third indictment total in washington, d.c. given the very serious tampering allegations that mueller leveled earlier in the week. an indictment means 23 members of a grand jury have found reasonable cause that a crime might have been committed. and jeremy bash, the presence of this russian in today s document, the presence of this russian perhaps in our society, how was today different? what just happened in this case? it s the first time that the mueller special counsel team has drawn a link between chairman paul maup fort and an official with ties to the russian government. there are other russians who have been indicted by the special council but here to for we do not have one with specific ties to russia. this one, kilimnick was a
federal courthouse, and there was considerably more activity than usual involving the mueller team. we saw andrew weissman, the lead prosecutor on the manafort case and one of mueller s top deputies, coming into the courthouse. there was comings and goings by another mueller prosecutor by the name of kyle freeney, as well as several fbi agents. and there were signals with them going back and forth into the clerk s office that perhaps the grand jury was preparing to return an indictment. and indeed by the early afternoon, there was a notice posted outside one of the courtrooms that just that had happened, that there had been a session where an indictment had been handed up although it was not immediately clear who was being indicted or why. it certainly seemed like manafort was a live possibility for what would be the second superseding indictment, the third indictment total in washington, d.c., given the very serious tampering allegations that mueller leveled earlier in the week. and
europe. basically an attempt by manafort to kind of guide them. constantine has been referenced in court documents although not specifically named before by mueller s team. as we have previously reported he is somebody that the u.s. government believes has ties to russian military intelligence. he is mentioned today. he is one of the persons that was charged along with paul manafort. it s two charges having to do with conspiracy to obstruct justice as well as object instructing justice. those charges are tied to those efforts to try to tamper with witnesses. they say the two of them were together to try to do that. this is now the third superseding indictment in this case. meaning this is the third time that mueller s team has come in with new charges based on evidence they have come up with. manafort s team has not yeth yet responded to this. he of course pled not guilty to the charges in the past. he has to respond by today. a judge told him to respond today to these tampering allega