Mueller's Manafort focus goes beyond Russia: Focus Spans 11 Years Back To Jan. 2006

[kpete]

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Washington (CNN)Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team is reaching back more than a decade in its investigation of Paul Manafort, a sign of the pressure Mueller is placing on President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman.

The FBI's warrant for a July search of Manafort's Alexandria, Virginia, home said the investigation centered on possible crimes committed as far back as January 2006, according to a source briefed on the investigation.

The broad time frame is the latest indication that Mueller's team is going well beyond Russian meddling during the campaign as part of its investigation of Trump campaign associates. Manafort, who has been the subject of an FBI investigation for three years, has emerged as a focal point for Mueller.

The search, an unusually hard-nosed tactic in a probe that centers on possible tax and financial crimes, began before dawn as Manafort and his wife lay in bed, according to sources briefed on the matter.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/19/politics/mueller-manafort-pressure-decade-investigation/index.html

[SHRED]

1. So it's taken this long?

WTF??

[BigmanPigman]

2. This investigation has so much to investigate that

I doubt it will be finished before 2020. I know that my own health can not take it another 20 days...this idiot and the GOP is NOT just exhausting me, they are killing me (I need the ACA). I guess that is their goal after all, isn't it?

[Major Nikon]

4. The fact that it's gone to the Grand Jury is telling

It means they are ready to issue an indictment. Once Manafort is indicted things are going to get very interesting.

[Not Ruth]

3. Manafort has been under formal investigation since W?