06-26-2018, 04:00 PM
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Reformed Know-Nothing
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: MoCo, MD
Posts: 25,907
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Originally Posted by whell
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Well, the adult supervision has spoken:
The prosecution of President Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort will go forward in federal court in Virginia, a judge ruled Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III made waves in May when he grilled prosecutors from the special counsel’s office, questioning whether bank and tax fraud crimes Manafort is accused of committing were outside the scope of their investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
But Ellis ultimately concluded that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III had the right to bring the case, setting the stage for a trial that is scheduled to begin July 25. If there are no further delays, it will be the first case brought by Mueller’s team to come before a jury.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...9ef_story.html
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