Well. . . Paul Manafort is having a very bad afternoon. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
Here is a new 37-page "speaking indictment" -- just filed by Team Mueller. The way it is crafted, it seems clear Gates will be largely a cooperating witness, to this speaking indictment -- and help prove it all up -- for the Special Counsel. He personally did most of this, right along with Manafort. Yet Gates is described as a mild mannered middle class fraudster, while Manafort is clearly painted (and accurately so) as an elite, disloyal to his country, aristocratic capitalist prince of darkness. This new speaking indictment will put enormous pressure on. . . both of them.
I have to run to a client dinner post haste, but will be back to explain why this tightens the cuffs around Donnie Jr., Jared and ultimately. . . 45's tiny wrists. Here's a bit:
. . . .When they were flush with Ukraine funds, MANAFORT, with the assistance of GATES, used their offshore accounts to purchase and improve real estate in the United States. When the income from Ukraine dwindled in 2014 and 2015, MANAFORT, with the assistance of GATES, obtained millions of dollars in mortgages on the United States properties, thereby allowing MANAFORT to have the benefits of liquid income without paying taxes on it.
MANAFORT and GATES defrauded the lenders in various ways, including by lying about MANAFORT’s and DMI’s income, lying about their debt, and lying about MANAFORT’s use of the property and the loan proceeds. For example, MANAFORT and GATES submitted fabricated profit and loss statements (P&Ls) that inflated income, and they caused others to provide doctored financial documents. . . .
A speaking indictment is one tough document: it uses a clever and devastating narrative device, to lay out the overall theory of the case. It is meant to terrify the indicted -- as they see how the AUSAs, at trial, will paint them, in front of the jury. How their families -- children too -- will be told, they really are.
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