DOJ: Ex-Manafort Associate Firtash Is Top-Tier Comrade of Russian Mobsters

[MelissaB]

Source: NBC News

The Department of Justice has identified a former business associate of ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort as an "upper-echelon [associate] of Russian organized crime."

The declaration came in a 115-page filing as part of the government's case against Dmytro Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch who was once involved in a failed multimillion-dollar deal to buy New York's Drake Hotel with Manafort, and an important player in the Ukrainian political party for which Manafort worked.

Firtash is being prosecuted for what federal prosecutors in Chicago say was his role in bribing Indian officials in order to get a lucrative mining deal to sell titanium to Boeing.

The government says that prosecuting Firtash and his co-defendant in the alleged scheme, Andras Knopp, "will disrupt this organized crime group and prevent it from further criminal acts within the United States."

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/doj-ex-manafort-associate-firtash-top-tier-comrade-russian-mobsters-n786806

[RKP5637]

1. This will probably disappoint the deplorables. n/t

[dalton99a]

2. The more light, the more cockroaches

[Still In Wisconsin]

3. Is there ANY question Manafort is connected?

I mean, ANY question?

[LiberalArkie]

8. Correction: Is there ANY question that the Trump Mafia is connected?

[Achilleaze]

4. Freaking republican TreasonWeasels are selling-out America

Investigate. Prosecute. Incarcerate all republican TreasonWeasels

[nycbos]

5. I am SHOCKED SHOCKED to find gambling going on here.

[UpInArms]

6. certainly appears that in Trumpministan, there is a giant

sewer

[Jim__]

7. This witch-hunt is uncovering lots and lots of strange coincidences.

Of course, there is no actual evidence of any collusion.

[mopinko]

9. this makes me more convinced that meeting was about blackmail.

the lawyer brought documents. they were not about hillary.
i wonder if they brought the tape.

[DeminPennswoods]

11. Reportedly, Manafort took notes at the Jun 16 meeting

and turned them over to the Intel Cmte.

[mopinko]

12. so he says. i wouldnt trust his notes.

[DeminPennswoods]

13. Doubt he ever expected to have to turn them over

to the feds. What I found interesting is that Jr and Jr-in-law said the meeting wasn't worth their time, yet Manafort thought there was enough substance to take notes.

[mopinko]

14. he could have made up those notes last week.

unless he can prove they were contemporaneous, they are worthless.

[DeminPennswoods]

15. Why would he?

There's no point in putting a lie down in black and white, then giving it to investigators.

[mopinko]

16. because he really took notes?

and wasnt about to give them THOSE.

[Duppers]

10. K & R