Mueller Issues New Indictment Against Manafort And Ukrainian Business Partner That Have Nothing To Do With Collusion
Chuck Ross
Special counsel Robert Mueller issued new charges Friday against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and a Russian-Ukrainian business partner accused of having ties to Russian intelligence agencies.
Mueller is charging Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik with obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice as part of an alleged scheme to force two witnesses in the case against Manafort to alter their testimony, according to the indictment.
The superseding indictment adds to the charges against Manafort, who is accused of conspiracy to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent for his work for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
The new indictment, which was handed down in federal court in Washington, D.C., does not make any allegations about Manafort’s activities during the campaign. Mueller was initially tasked with investigation possible collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and the Russian government. So far, his investigation has focused heavily on Manafort’s pre-campaign consulting work.
The new indictment alleges that Manafort and Kilimnik attempted to influence witnesses between Feb. 23 and April 2018.
The two individuals — referred to as Person D1 and Person D2 — first began working with Manafort and Kilimnik in 2012 as part of what Manafort referred to as “The Hapsburg Group.”
Persons D1 and D2 served as intermediaries to European politicians who Manafort paid to lobby secretly for Ukraine and Yanukovych.
Manafort and Kilimnik reached out to the two individuals beginning on the same day that Rick Gates, a former Manafort business partner, accepted a plea deal and began cooperating with Mueller’s investigation.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/06/08/ro...fort-kilimnik/
This has become totally absurd. It might appear that since he cannot get Trump, he's indicting the rest of America (sarcasm)...he is only supposed to be investigating the alleged Trump/Russia collusion. In days gone by, they used to call this a drumhead. Because he cannot find one person to lie about Trump, he's going after family members and friends of family members. You can bet he's threatened a whole list of people unassociated with Trump trying to find something, anything.
We need to put this thing to bed, and demand our money back. If the first 4 months cost us 7 million, it is easy to figure that 18 months of this drumhead has cost us an easy 30 million with to charges against Trump.
I'd like to have a paycheck like this for doing no more that Mueller has,. If he were a contracting building a home, I'd fired him 14 months ago, and you could bet only the concrete floors had been poured.