District court where manafort went on trial. it s the case against this guy. a trump transition official named bijon keon. charged with conspiracy and illegally operating as a foreign agent. known for working with the consulting firm of trump national security adviser mike flynn. in court papers flynn is described as having participated in some soft criminal schemes for which keon is being charged and expected to go on trial for this summer. but keon isn t just an associate of mike flynn. keon did go on in his own right to get a real high-ranking gig in the trump transition. he was on the landing team in the trump transition at the office of the director of national intelligence. remarkably his linkedin page is still up today even after he s been indicted.
The court by the new york times. the times asked the court to unfile these. which is what drove the news cycle all day. the motion to release in manafort s trial was filed in the court by the washington post. this is why you need to subscribe to more newspapers. they are doing good work with your money. subscribe to your local paper. subscribe to national papers that you read. heck, if you ve got the money to do it, give people gift subscriptions to those papers whenever it comes time to give a present. you will feel great about it. your country needs you to do it. half the news that we ve got is stuff that newspapers dig up, but about another half of the news that we get is stuff they pry loose by other means. anyway, in the manafort case today, it s the washington post and they re telling the court please unseal all this stuff from manafort s case. so the judge when she got that motion from the washington post a week and a half ago, she set a deadline for the
By an unfetterred review of his 302s. what we are objecting to is a frolic through everything else that the special counsel s office produced in connection with entirely unrelated matters. so this is we ve only had one trial so far from mueller. this is likely the next trial that derive from the special counsel s investigation. mike flynn is going to be artpa of it. he s apparently the key witness against the defendant in this trial. his sentencing has been delayed again in part because of his role in this trial. because he has a role in this trial, the defense wants access to everything flynn has said as a prosecuting witness. the prosecutors are saying no, no, no, no way. flynn s cooperation involved matters that are still pending investigations. stuff that s still live. now, that s where it was with this penning kian trial and the fight over mike flynn s
presidential transition teams intelligence community deputy lead. according to the associated press, the responsibilities associated with that trump transition job included bijan di kian taking part in sensitive intelligence decisions, included scrutinizing then congressman mike pompeo before pompeo was named trump s cia director. so that means this guy was serving as a senior official in the trump transition, working on intelligence matters. among other things in that role, he was helping select the next cia director while prosecutors say he was also allegedly at the same time illegally serving as a paid secret agent of a foreign country. oh, what could possibly go wrong? well, now as that guy s case is heading to trial in july, now the reason that mike flynn still hasn t been sentenced, the
Much courtroom action, right? i mean, there s been lots of hearings before judges and stuff, but in terms of actual litigation with a jury and a defendant and everything, that s only happened once. we ve only had one trial so far. that was when paul manafort took his case to trial in federal court in virginia. didn t work out well, right? manafort got convicted there. that s part of why he is now starting his seven-plus year federal prison sentence. regardless of what happens with the unredactions or not in his case files, which is still a matter of dispute in the court. but paul manafort, his trial, that s the only trial we ve had in this whole scandal thus far. that said, another one is coming. the second trial from this whole saga, the one, you know, it might not happen, might fall apart, there might be a plea deal, they might drop charges, you never know, but right now what appears to be coming for the second trial for all this stuff is the same federal