Apparently Manafort has a pal who owns a storage locker with boxes of evidence (Now in FBI hands) [View all]

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JUST IN: Paul Manafort asks judge to suppress evidence from over 20 boxes of files from a storage locker in Va. Motion contains some juicy lists of what the boxes contain. 2 lists below. Full motion, courtesy of





Paul Manafort is still writhing on the hook as his September trial approaches, filing various motions to fend off Mueller about this or that. In THE RAID last year (remember that one Paulie? The no-knock warrant? Where you woke up at 6am with the FBI handing you your robe and slippers, telling you “keep that toothbrush in plain sight...sir”?), the one that seized all sorts of electronic devices, ledgers, bank accounts numbers (and now we know, froze their cash) now comes another piece.

Apparently Manafort has a pal who owns a storage locker. In the same RAID the FBI also seized 20 boxes of Manafort’s STUFF from that storage locker. We know this because Manafort just filed a motion to suppress the evidence from those 20 boxes (and Mueller will of course counter-file.) When you do that, you have to be specific, so Manafort had to NAME the 20 boxes in question.



So he said (according to a CNBC reporter’s twitter HERE) there’s this one labeled X, and and that one labelled Y, etc. Box 12 read “Ukraine Binders” (!!) and listed things like “Georgia” (likely the country, not the state) “ballot security”, “Ukraine campaign”(!) and stuff like that. (No word if this was also labeled “Pre-Season Warm-Up for Hillary”)

Yes, Mr. Mueller is going to be DAMN interested in keeping that stuff in evidence.

Also, another box label mentions “Jules Nasso.” Who?

Apparently back in ‘04 Mr. Nasso pleaded guilty to threatening the actor Steven Seagal on behalf of the Gambino Crime family. (“Mr. Seagal? I have a message from my boss….”). And Mr. Jules Nasso is connected to Paul Manafort?

Way to pick your friends there, Paulie! Part 1.

Oh and BTW, part of Manafort’s defense and motion to suppress is that Mueller’s warrant didn’t extend to the Storage Locker. Which is actually 100% true.

On the other hand, apparently Mueller’s team went to the ACTUAL OWNER of the storage locker and asked permission to search it...and the guy said something like, “Sure. Anything to help the FBI.” You don’t need a warrant if the owner says ‘Yes.’

Way to pick your friends there, Paulie! Part 2.

Hope this helps that second cup of coffee on Saturday taste even better.

Shalom.




MORE:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/7/1754954/-Mueller-is-Closing-in-the-Left-is-Energized-and-Trump-is-Unraveling-Saturday-s-Good-News#comment_69800160
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4433460-Suppress.html

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