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kurtcagle

(1,602 posts) Fri Feb 23, 2018, 03:35 PM Feb 2018

Tech savvy these guys aren't

Manafort may have left an incriminating trail because he couldn't figure out how to convert PDFs to Word documents.

http://amp.slate.com/technology/2018/02/paul-manafort-couldnt-convert-pdfs-to-word-documents.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru&__twitter_impression=true

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Tech savvy these guys aren't (Original Post) kurtcagle Feb 2018 OP

Neither can I, at least not without a lot of strange characters in my Word documents. mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2018 #1

Not tech-savvy AND arrogant. Girard442 Feb 2018 #2

I skimmed the indictment and saw one instance where Gates got about 10% for a laundering. Yonnie3 Feb 2018 #3

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,378 posts)

1. Neither can I, at least not without a lot of strange characters in my Word documents.

Reply to kurtcagle (Original post)

Fri Feb 23, 2018, 03:42 PM

Feb 2018

We're talking technical manuals. I have to go back through them and make many, many corrections.

Girard442

(6,067 posts)

2. Not tech-savvy AND arrogant.

Reply to kurtcagle (Original post)

Fri Feb 23, 2018, 03:43 PM

Feb 2018

Even if you can't tell the difference between a PDF and a PDA, you should still be paranoid enough to want to see the document trail deleted/erased/shredded/burned/eaten and not splatted out over the Internet. Manafort wasn't just sloppy because he's a tech-doofus, but also because he's an arrogant asshole.

Yonnie3

(17,427 posts)

3. I skimmed the indictment and saw one instance where Gates got about 10% for a laundering.

Reply to kurtcagle (Original post)

Fri Feb 23, 2018, 03:54 PM

Feb 2018

30 million moved and he got 3, considering the legal exposure to Gates, that is a small cut. Gates had the tech down but not the legal savvy.

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