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New York Charges Paul Manafort With 16 Crimes. If He's Convicted, Trump Can't Pardon Him.


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New York Charges Paul Manafort With 16 Crimes. If He's Convicted, Trump Can't Pardon Him.

Source: New York Times

Paul J. Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, has been charged in New York with mortgage fraud and more than a dozen other state felonies, the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., said Wednesday, an effort to ensure he will still face prison time if Mr. Trump pardons him for his federal crimes. 

News of the indictment came shortly after Mr. Manafort was sentenced to his second federal prison term in two weeks; he now faces a combined sentence of more than seven years for tax and bank fraud and conspiracy in two related cases brought by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III. 

The president has broad power to issue pardons for federal crimes, but has no such authority in state cases.While Mr. Trump has not said he intends to pardon his former campaign chairman, he has often spoken of his power to pardon and has defended Mr. Manafort on a number of occasions, calling him a "brave man." 

The new state charges against Mr. Manafort are contained in a 16-count indictment that alleges a yearlong scheme in which he falsified business records to obtain millions of dollars in loans, Mr. Vance said in a news release after the federal sentencing.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/nyregion/manafort-indictment.html 
 

Note that these are STATE charges separate from what has just concluded with the sentencing for the federal charges.
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2 hours ago, AKIQPilot said:

Good.  Manifort is a huge POS.  He should fry for all of his financial transgressions.  

Meanwhile Tony Podesta his business partner walks free. Pathetic 

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Just now, DriftBusta said:

Sure is.  Yet the narrative is that this somehow still connected Trump....

A dam could break during a storm and it would be Trumps fault.

:lol:

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14 minutes ago, DAVE said:

A dam could break during a storm and it would be Trumps fault.

:lol:

Well yea.  Liberal tears caused the reservoir to overfill.  Trump creates liberal tears.  So definitely Trumps fault.  

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2 minutes ago, AKIQPilot said:

Well yea.  Liberal tears caused the reservoir to overfill.  Trump creates liberal tears.  So definitely Trumps fault.  

:lol: never thought of that connection

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