So that is the bank fraud charge. what is not charged but springs to mind could be bribery. talking about this outrageous cabinet position. delivering this enormous loan to manafort. why did manafort take this job for no pay at a strange time. just washed out of his ukrainian business. manafort joins the campaign march 29, 2016. in may, they have dinner. he has dinner with the bank ceo. in july they video conference. august 3rd, manafort asks for calk resume. november 11 calk believes he might be up for job.
calk seems to be working with manafort and others. so that is the bank fraud charge. what is not charged but springs to mind could be bribery. talking about this outrageous cabinet position. delivering this enormous loan to manafort. why did manafort take this job for no pay at a strange time. just washed out of his ukrainian business. manafort joins the campaign march 29, 2016. in may, they have dinner. he has dinner with the bank ceo. in july they video conference. august 3rd, manafort asks for calk resume. november 11 calk believes he
Rick gates may take the stand as early as today. that would be interesting. this comes after he reveals that manafort was broke in 2016 and lied to banks to get loans. joe johns has more. yes, the prosecution filling in a few missing peaces of the paul manafort financial time line how he went from the boom years when he was flushed with millions of dollars in cash to around 2016 when he was flat broke. 2016 by the way the year that he took over as the campaign chairman for the trump campaign. so broke that he was submitted doctored financial statements to get loans that goes to the bank
He s been getting beaten up in the federal charges here in washington. but this judge ellis down in virginia, he raised some questions about in particular a bank fraud charge that manafort is facing one of 18 counts in alexandria, virginia and here is a couple of quotes. that this investigation is become about the president and he said you don t really care about mr. manafort s bank fraud. he said, this is about trump s prosecution or impeachment. that is what you re really interested in. and he also said that essentially that the the council that the special counsel had too much power and said we don t want anybody in this kiernts with unfettered power and it is unlikely you ll going to persuade me that the special counsel has power to do anything he or she wants. and of course, president trump took up the charge there from the judge and he was addressing the nra convention today and he enjoyed what the judge had to