Paul Manafort Keeps Admitting to Stuff On Monitored Prison Calls

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https://www.gq.com/story/paul-manafort-monitored-prison-calls

Quote:Things aren't going great for Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's one-time campaign manager who's doing his best to make Michael Cohen look competent. Manafort is one of the highest-profile indictments so far in Robert Mueller's on-going probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, and his lawyers have been working on two things lately: delaying his upcoming July 25 trial, and getting Manafort moved to another facility because the one he's currently in is too far for him and his lawyers to coordinate. As CNN reports, it looked like he was going to get what he wanted:

Quote:For weeks, Manafort has implored judges to alleviate the distance between him and his lawyers while he's at Northern Neck Regional Jail, about two hours outside Washington. On Tuesday, federal Judge T.S. Ellis stepped in to move Manafort to an Alexandria, Virginia, detention center so he "has access to his counsel and can adequately prepare his defense."

Actually, Manafort decided, never mind. On Tuesdays his attorneys told Ellis that he changed his mind about relocating, claiming that he feared for his safety among the other inmates. And that may well be true. But it turns out that Manafort has a lot of reasons for not wanting to leave: Apparently he's pretty comfortable where he is. He's got his own bathroom and shower, a personal telephone, and doesn´t even have to wear a prison jumpsuit. To use Manafort's own words, he's being treated like a "VIP."


We know those are his words because Manafort has been trying to delay his upcoming July 25 trial, and Mueller's team has filed its opposition to that motion--and in the footnotes in that opposition we learn that Manafort has described all of this in phone calls from prison. He's even explained how he's gotten around the prison's ban on sending and receiving emails:

Quote:Manafort has revealed on the monitored phone calls that in order to exchange emails, he reads and composes emails on a second laptop that is shuttled in and out of the facility by his team. When the team takes the laptop from the jail, it reconnects to the internet and Manafort’s emails are transmitted.

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MANAFORT: prison life is great, I can do whatever I want, the feds are clueless heh

LAWYER: uh, there's a strong chance that I'm not the only person listening to this call so you migh--

MANAFORT: I SAID THE FEDS ARE CLUELESS, IDIOTS, BUNCHA CHUMPS
1:41 PM - Jul 11, 2018

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One of the fallacies that Trump leaned on during his campaign is the cliche that rich people become rich because they're smarter than everyone else (despite the fact that Trump's wealthy because he was born wealthy). If you ever need proof that it isn't true, just point to Manafort's constant bungling.

Only the BEST people.  

[*michaelsean*]

Has he never watched TV before?

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(07-12-2018, 10:03 AM)michaelsean Wrote: Has he never watched TV before?

Only the best and smartest people!

He needs to be more like Trump who works so hard he never has time to watch television!  

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This is scary stuff how many corrupt Americans orbited Trumps angelic exsistance. I'm just glad we have a stable genius running the country.

If it wasnt for him asking clearly on camera at a podium broadcast to the world for Russias help hacking his political opponent. We would have never found out Russia was interfering in our political system.

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I'll post this one here since his trial is underway.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-suggests-paul-manafort-being-treated-worse-than-al-capone

Quote:Trump suggests Paul Manafort being treated worse than Al Capone


President Trump suggested Wednesday his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is being treated worse than mobster Al Capone, as Manafort enters his second day of trial on charges of tax evasion and bank fraud.


Trump asked whether Manfort, whom the president described as a “Reagan/Dole darling,” was receiving worse treatment for his alleged crimes than Capone, a “legendary mob boss, killer and ‘Public Enemy Number One.’”

Looking back on history, who was treated worse, Alfonse Capone, legendary mob boss, killer and “Public Enemy Number One,” or Paul Manafort, political operative & Reagan/Dole darling, now serving solitary confinement - although convicted of nothing? Where is the Russian Collusion?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2018

Prosecutors allege Manafort failed to pay taxes on millions he made working for a Ukrainian political party, and then lied to secure loans when his cash flow dried up. Trump’s former campaign chairman also faces charges in Washington, D.C. Manafort has pleaded not guilty.

It’s the second time in less than a month Trump has made a Capone comparison. Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity last month that federal investigators were treating Manafort like he was Capone.


“Well you look at Flynn, it’s a shame,” Trump said, referring to former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleading guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with the Russians. “But the FBI didn’t think it was lying with Paul Manafort, who is a really nice man. You look at what’s going on with him, it’s like Al Capone.”

Capone, a notorious crime boss, was sentenced to prison for 11 years in the 1930s for tax evasion.

Couple things:

As one commenter noted:  We at least had Capone's tax returns...we don't have Trump's.

Manafort got solitary for his action after he was arrested/charged.