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marylandblue

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7. Seems like grasping at straws

Reply to Not Ruth (Reply #5)

Thu Nov 2, 2017, 12:48 PM

Nov 2017

Sounds like he is saying they are only going after my crime for the serious crime of money laundering because they can't prove my client is a foreign agent, even though he is actually a foreign agent who may have comitted money laundering.

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Manafort defense blasts indictment as based on 'tenuous legal theory' [View all] DonViejo Nov 2017 OP

The only thing tenuous is their grasp of reality Roland99 Nov 2017 #1

Money laundering is a tenuous legal theory? marylandblue Nov 2017 #2

If you read the article... Not Ruth Nov 2017 #5

Seems like grasping at straws marylandblue Nov 2017 #7

The point is more subtle than that jberryhill Nov 2017 #9

Historically (well since 1966), the lawyer has a decent FARA defense Not Ruth Nov 2017 #11

See count 2 of the indictment marylandblue Nov 2017 #12

And as with Al Capone, that may be the true focus of the case Not Ruth Nov 2017 #14

so I can launder money by having my Russian oligarch lapfog_1 Nov 2017 #3

tenacious...there, i fixed it for you. ret5hd Nov 2017 #4

Laundering nearly a million dollars through a clothing store is very damning. Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2017 #6

Or he often ruins his suits by getting them dirty a lot marylandblue Nov 2017 #8

Are we talking about actual laundry now? Not Ruth Nov 2017 #10

Yes, I get spaghetti sauce on my suits all the time marylandblue Nov 2017 #13

Manaforts attorney wrote: Calista241 Nov 2017 #15

So will that be the next indictment on Manafort... IthinkThereforeIAM Nov 2017 #16