Manafort defense blasts indictment as based on 'tenuous legal theory'

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3. so I can launder money by having my Russian oligarch

buddies send it to me through lots of dummy corporations and off shore shady banks, but that's OK because the FARA law isn't clear as to what it mean to lobby on behalf of those Russian Oligarchs?

Oh, and I shouldn't have to pay taxes on that money either.

yeah, right.

And the reason that they keep bringing up the fact that this happened long before Manafort became the campaign chairperson for Trump is:

1. Because they must protect Trump at all costs

and

2. A very weak theory that Mueller's investigation should be limited to only what happened during the campaign vis a vis the Russian interference with our election. So, "fruit from the poison tree" says that finding evidence about all this illegal money laundering should get tossed because Mueller should not have gone looking that far back into Manafort's dealings.