Manafort defense targets Mueller prosecutor Weissmann

[DonViejo]

By JOSH GERSTEIN 05/21/2018 09:45 PM EDT

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's defense is going after one of special counsel Robert Mueller's top deputies in a bid to persuade a federal judge to order a hearing into leaks to the media.

In a court filing Monday night, Manafort's attorneys singled out prosecutor Andrew Weissmann over a meeting he attended with The Associated Press in April 2017 — about a month before Mueller was appointed to take over the Trump-Russia investigation. At the time, Weissmann headed the fraud section of the Justice Department's Criminal Division.

The precise nature of the session with the AP reporters is unclear, but it came a day before the news agency reported that financial records showed Manafort actually received payments attributed to him in a so-called black ledger of secret Ukrainian government compensation.

Manafort's defense attorneys suggested the episode makes Weissmann a logical suspect as a source for anonymously sourced press accounts about the Manafort probe.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/21/manafort-targets-mueller-prosecutor-weissmann-602652

[emulatorloo]

1. "Mueller's team also suggested that members of Congress, witnesses, attorneys for other suspects ...

“However, in a response to Manafort's initial motion for a hearing into the leaks, prosecutors said there was no indication that the leaks Manafort's team cited involved grand jury information. Mueller's team also suggested that members of Congress, witnesses, attorneys for other suspects and even Manafort's own attorneys could be potential sources for many of the reports.”

Manafort anc his lawyers aren’t as clever as they think they are.

[SonofDonald]

2. Yup they're scrambling to find a way

To stop this as they know they don't have a chance in hell of beating the actual charges.

The trials coming and it's coming fast, so is manaforts end.