An attorney working on the Justice Department’s highest-profile money-laundering case recently transferred off that assignment in order to join the staff of the special prosecutor investigating the Trump campaign’s potential ties to Russia, POLITICO has learned. Attorney Kyle Freeny’s background in examining potential money-laundering is significant given the money-laundering questions surrounding this controversy.

Really? Just who is investigating her? Robert Mueller is Trump’s worst nightmare. Mueller is a lifelong Republican, a former FBI Director, and he was a Marine in the Vietnam War, where he earned a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. Mueller is as tough as steel, and he will not back down when it comes to investigating any crimes by Trump and his comrades. Lawman Mueller is a 21st Century Untouchable.

The song remains the same.

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Mueller takes orders. Mueller was culpable in Hillary's sale of uranium to Russia. And you claim he has no bias? So, he chose Hillary donors to work on his team, at random? And you believe he will be fair in his investigation? I'll believe that when he manages an indictment for Hillary's crimes, that by the way are very obvious.

So I guess you think Hillary walked into that secure military base, stuffed her purse with uranium and mailed a radioactive Christmas present to Putin? How naive are you? That story has been debunked over a million times. In 2010, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States approved the sale (uranium cannot leave the USA, by the way). The State Department was one of nine agencies on the committee that approved the deal. The deal was also separately approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. There is no evidence Clinton herself got involved in the deal personally, and it is highly questionable that this deal even rose to the level of the secretary of state. Hillary is walking around freely because she is innocent of Trump's lies and all that Russian propaganda, and Trump is the one going down. No, Hillary Clinton did not "give Russia 20 percent of the uranium” in the US - Vox

The facts behind Trump’s repeated claim about Hillary Clinton’s role in the Russian uranium deal - The Washington Post

Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, has been told by federal prosecutors that they plan to indict him, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
CBS News confirmed Manafort had been wiretapped under a foreign intelligence warrant in connection with U.S. concerns that he was communicating with Russian operatives who wanted to influence the American election. The warrants were issued before Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel to take over the investigation from the FBI. The U.S. government listened in on Manafort's conversations during the presidential campaign and through the election -- though not constantly -- and its surveillance includes the period when Manafort was Mr. Trump's campaign chairman.

The very fact that the F.B.I. raided Manafort’s home is telling: the former Trump campaign manager is reportedly under investigation for potentially violating tax laws, money laundering, and the failure to disclose foreign lobbying on behalf of pro-Russian interests. In order for Mueller to obtain the warrant to search and enter Manafort’s home unannounced, his team would have had to convince a judge not only that the home contained evidence of a crime, but that Manafort was likely to destroy evidence. “Clearly they didn’t trust him,” Jimmy Gurulé, a Notre Dame law professor and former federal prosecutor, told the Times. “This is more consistent with how you’d go after an organized crime syndicate,” he added.

The latest revelations will only fuel speculation that Mueller’s team sees Manafort as either the primary suspect in any Russia-related wrongdoing, or the best person to flip to become a cooperating witness for the state. A series of moves over the past months suggest Mueller is attempting to gain maximum leverage over Manafort.

Trump doomed
 

As the plot thickens. Count down....

Manafort: TIC TOC TIC TOC. TRUMPs ass must be plucked up so tight a carpenter could not drive a nail up it with a 2 pound hammer. LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

Reactions: Norm Eisen was Barack Obama’s White House ethics czar: Hoo boy. Let's be very clear here: if Manafort told Trump of Russian interference and Trump approved, they are both going down.

A former spokesman for the Justice Department questioned Trump’s continued communications with Manafort: Trump continuing to talk on the phone to Manafort this year when it was already clear he was a target is just unbelievably reckless. Twitter …

Breitbart is spinning the CNN story that Manafort was being surveilled as validation of Trump’s claim that Trump Tower was wiretapped. Back under the control of Steve Bannon, the banner headline on the site is: “CNN Admits Trump Campaign Was Wiretapped: Breitbart News and Mark Levin Right, Mainstream Media Wrong.”

Tic TOC tic TOC. LOL, PRAISE MANAFORT. if he flips on trump, I will donate to his defense fund.

How about when Tony the Weiner rolls on Hillary? Gonna donate to his defense fund?

Mueller's team wants information connected to the Oval Office meeting Trump had with Russian officials in which he bragged about firing Comey, saying it eased pressure on his White House. The requests show that parts of Mueller's investigation are focusing on the President's own actions.

Time for Trump to advise Mueller to either produce some results or be fired. No use wasting time and money on a witch hunt. If Mueller has some viable leads, fine. If not, he should be terminated.

If Trump fires Mueller (and he would love to) it will cause a Constitutional crisis. Remember Mueller's investigation is only one of three going on at the same time, as the House and the Senate are also doing their own investigations, and if the intelligence was truly questionable, GOP members of the two Congressional intelligence committees would be questioning it. They're not. Mueller is looking into Trump’s international money laundering connections and links with Russian operatives as a means of accepting Russian payoffs. Mueller is just sharpening his pencils. Stay tuned! Robert Mueller is expanding the Russia probe. Here’s how | PBS NewsHour

Hey Mell - are you a window licker or just another stupid broad?

Consitutional crisis...who's a$$ did you have your head stuffed in the last 8 years?

Trumps international money laundering...geeze just another accusation!

Are you enjoying your inefficient home built on a filled swamp?

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Interesting how suddenly Clapper is admitting that Trump may have been wire tapped. Perhaps he is taking doses of Ginko Biloba and has had a miracle recollection? Totally different from his testimony under oath where he adamantly denied that Trump had been wire tapped. Be careful how you answer this one because the way things are going, you may find a bit of egg on your face.

Again, the FBI has to be pretty sure you're a traitor to get permission for a wiretap. The fact that they MAY have picked up Trump talking to Manafort, who was the subject of the wiretap, is immaterial. But be sure and ignore the circumstances and jump to conclusions.

Trump Taj Mahal was cited by the IRS and fined by the US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) for money laundering offenses dating all the way back to 1990. It’s entirely possible that Trump was never more than a convenient patsy for Russian oligarchs and mobsters, with his casinos and condos providing easy pass-throughs for their illicit riches. At the very least, with his constant need for new infusions of cash and his well-documented troubles with creditors, Trump made an easy “mark” for anyone looking to launder money. But whatever his knowledge about the source of his wealth, the public record makes clear that Trump built his business empire in no small part with a lot of dirty money from a lot of dirty Russians.

Throughout the 1990s, untold millions from the former Soviet Union flowed into Trump’s luxury developments and Atlantic City casinos. But all the money wasn’t enough to save Trump from his own failings as a businessman. He owed $4 billion to more than 70 banks, with a mind-boggling $800 million of it personally guaranteed. For most developers, the situation would have spelled financial ruin. But fortunately for Trump, Russian mobsters came to his aid. Dolly Lenz, a New York real estate broker, told USA Today that she sold some 65 units in Trump World Tower to Russians. Some of these were convicted for taking part in a massive international gambling and money-laundering syndicate that was run out of Trump Tower in New York. Another one-third of the units—more than 700 in all—were bought by shadowy shell companies that concealed the true owners. Condos in Trump Tower served as the headquarters for a “sophisticated money-laundering scheme” that moved an estimated $100 million out of the former Soviet Union, through shell companies in Cyprus, and into investments in the United States.

What will happen when Paul Manafort, the first likely Russia domino, finally falls?
 

How exactly do you have “no contact with Russians” when you choose to bring two Russians, one of them a former government lawyer and the other an alleged military spy, right into the heart of your campaign?, U.S. intel agencies recorded Russian agents discussing a request for “help” in their campaign by Paul Manafort, who was the third Trump campaign member in that meeting besides Don Jr. and Jared Kushner. In the summer of 2016, US intelligence agencies noticed a spate of curious contacts between Trump campaign associates and suspected Russian intelligence, according to current and former US officials briefed on the investigation… CNN has learned that investigators became more suspicious when they turned up intercepted communications that U.S. intelligence agencies collected among suspected Russian operatives discussing their efforts to work with Manafort, who served as campaign chairman, to coordinate information that could damage Hillary Clinton's election prospects, the US officials say. The suspected operatives relayed what they claimed were conversations with Manafort, encouraging help from the Russians. Manafort secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago and proposed an ambitious political strategy to undermine anti-Russian opposition across former Soviet republics, The Associated Press has learned. The work appears to contradict assertions by the Trump administration and Manafort himself that he never worked for Russian interests. The reports we currently have of Manafort’s actions are that he attended a meeting with former Russian prosecutor Natalia Veselnitskaya, who secretly came to Trump Tower to meet with Donald Jr. She brought former Russian Intelligence officer Rinat Ahkmetshin with her, who has been reportedly linked to various acts of corporate hacking, in order to supposedly provide the Trump campaign with “negative information on Hillary Clinton” that would have helped their campaign because that’s something the “Russian Government wanted” to do. Less than two weeks before Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign chairman offered to provide briefings on the race to a Russian billionaire closely aligned with the Kremlin, according to people familiar with the discussions. Paul Manafort made the offer in an email to an overseas intermediary, asking that a message be sent to Oleg Deripaska, an aluminum magnate with whom Manafort had done business in the past, these people said.
“If he needs private briefings we can accommodate,” Manafort wrote in the July 7, 2016, email, portions of which were read to The Washington Post along with other Manafort correspondence from that time. Manafort proposed in a confidential strategy plan as early as June 2005 that he would influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States, Europe and the former Soviet republics to benefit the Putin government, even as U.S.-Russia relations under Republican President George W. Bush grew worse. Manafort pitched the plans to Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska, a close Putin ally with whom Manafort eventually signed a $10 million annual contract beginning in 2006, according to interviews with several people familiar with payments to Manafort and business records obtained by the AP. Manafort and Deripaska maintained a business relationship until at least 2009, according to one person familiar with the work.
Just to be clear, Manafort did this illegally, because he failed to register as a foreign agent at the time. In fact, he didn’t finally register until June of this year. The problem now appears to be that Manafort didn’t exactly end this relationship with Deripaska in 2009, when Medvedev became president of the Russian Federation and Putin became prime minister. It seems to have continued.
And there’s also the problem that even without registering under FARA, doing any work for Deripaska was potentially problematic under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Deripaska also faces possible money laundering charges because he’s alleged to have ties to the Russian mafia (although in fairness it should be noted that he later sued the AP for defamation over these claims). Just to sum up, Donald Trump has claimed he had “nothing to do with Russians,” that no one in his campaign had “anything to do with Russians.”

Who cares? Hillary lost and that is a fact. It ain't gonna change. Live with it. The Russians are just a conspiracy to cover the left's embarrassment.

IRS shares information with special counsel in Russia probe
 

Mueller is guided by a written order issued by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in May which allows the special counsel to investigate "any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation." The IRS Criminal Investigation agents had been working with the FBI to investigate Manafort since before the election in a similar probe that centered on possible money laundering and tax fraud issues. The new information about the depth of IRS involvement renews questions surrounding the controversial issue of President Donald Trump's tax returns, which he refused to release during the campaign despite decades of precedent by presidential candidates. Mueller's team has warned Manafort that they are working to charge him with possible tax and financial crimes, an indication the investigation could be in an advanced stage.

You're probably upset that NFL players are protesting the unfair treatment of some of our citizens and think your reaction is patriotic, while at the same time ignoring an attack on our nation by a hostile foreign government. I believe you need to widen your sources of information to that "mainstream media" Trump is so afraid you'll listen to.

"In the past we’ve always come together as a country when we’ve been attacked by a foreign enemy, whether it was Pearl Harbor or 9/11. And for this, for the first time, [it] is not so.” — Rob Reiner

f Trump begins blocking the progress of the investigation with pardons, federal courts can expect some exercise. But Mueller doesn’t want to leave his case in the hands of Trump-appointed judges. Acting as Mueller’s top legal counsel, Michael Dreeben has been researching past pardons and determining what, if any, limits exist. Dreeben’s brief is to make sure the special counsel’s prosecutorial moves are legally airtight. Dreeben, 62, built that expertise over three decades as an appeals lawyer at the Justice Department. As a deputy solicitor general, he’s pored over prosecutors’ moves in more than a thousand federal criminal prosecutions and defended many of them from challenges all they way to the nation’s highest court. Dreeben is the expert in how to make charges stick.

Mellinhead still talking to herself...too bad Obamma did nothing to prevent anyone from influencing an election..
Mueller leaked to the media and should be disbarred.

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What a load of crap! In other words, it's against the law to make money in Russia. ... yeah right.

Femo-Fascists can't stand the reality of Trump's winning because it's an affront to their conceit, i.e. their sense of superiority.


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Meanwhile, "Liberty? What's that?...

For some reason there are many celebrity birthday wish threads started in this political forum. I am sure there is a reason for it. Something a new person wouldn't understand. However, it does bring to mind an old movie that seems relevant to this subject. I do not know if anyone remembers the old movie "The Russians are Coming." I really didn't care for the movie, but the title seems to fit the narrative.

Democrats in Congress say we've only seen the "tip of the iceberg" when it comes to social media and Russian interference, but here's a top Republican saying it, Sen. John Cornyn: "It's consistent with everything else we've seen in terms of Russian active measures -- a combination of cyber, of propaganda and paid and social media," he said. "So, we're just looking at the tip of the iceberg."

It's against the law to make money in Russia...and then lie to Congress about it. Senate Intelligence committee member Senator Coons wrote a memo:"Below is a statute to keep in mind in regards to Donald Trump Jr.'s testimony today," then he simply laid out the legal statute for lying to Congress. Mueller recognizes that Russian organized crime and sophisticated financial transactions involving them are going to be right at the center and has hired Lisa Page and Andrew Weissmann. Page is a trial attorney in the Justice Department's organized-crime section whose cases centered on international organized crime and money laundering, and Weissmann is a seasoned prosecutor who oversaw cases against high-ranking organized criminals on Wall Street in the early 1990s and, later, against 30 people implicated in the Enron fraud scandal.

It always strikes me that we have a sitting President who actually opposes investigating a foreign power interfering in our election.....he actually continues to call it a hoax, and fake news.

That is mind boggling to me. How much more of an anti american attitude can you have.

But he allows himself from our oval office to make serious felonious accusations about so many people, never supplying substance to anything he says.

Hard to draw up a more anti american attitude that what he has.

When The Washington Post reported that Robert Mueller, the special counsel overseeing the FBI's probe, was investigating whether Trump obstructed justice, the Republican National Committee did not dispute the accuracy of the report. Neither did Trump's lawyer, Marc Kasowitz.

Even more amazing, mind boggling and disgusting, are the Anti-American citizens of this great nation...who still blindly follow him. :ohdear:

Better not bring up lying to congress. The Clintons are the experts of lying. Did Hillary not receive money from Russia? Was it not pay to play? Was it related to her signature of approval for the uranium transfer?

Time for libtards to quit grasping at straws and decide how they are going to win some seats back in politics, other than dog catcher management. You do not get votes by making yourself look worse than your opponent.

Same reply always. Never ever substantiated...just a general condemnation of Clinton's, never backed up.

Followed by a rude, troll comment

None of that excuses Trump

From what 'tard? You said that Hillary was not a criminal because she was not indicted. What are you going to indict Trump on? Other than your made up crap, based on nothing but your "hate" for him.

Yep, you are about as much a conservative as I am a democrat. You lost credibility when you voted for Mickey Mouse.

Do you even read your posts before allowing others to see your incoherent rankings.

Anything anyone says abut Trump, and there is so much is something about Clinton or Obama. And of course your belief that Trump, who has spent his life on the fringe and really over, is some kind of saint.

This man has laundered money for both the Jersey mob and the Russian mob. He is the single largest violates of federal housing law, and on and on, and you are so out of it, you paint this dispicable man to be decent.

That is like the most STUPID thing you have ever said on here. Actually, probably the most stupid that anyone has said on here. I am surprised that you did not try to edit it by now. It's been posted for quite a while.

Anti-American? Those that follow the American President is "Anti-American?" Do you see how stupid your comment is? You must have really lost it, because I would not expect you to make such a bad mistake.
I have never heard of anyone accused of following the legitimately elected President of being Anti-American because they follow him. That's great! Gotta love it when a libtard has lost it to the point of proving everyone else RIGHT.