Judge reveals identities of 5 witnesses immunized to testify against Manafort

By artappraiser on Mon, 07/23/2018 - 7:16pm |

By Emily Birnbaum @ TheHill.com, 07/23/18 03:34 PM EDT

[....] The witnesses, who Mueller's team submitted for immunity last week and whose identities were not released publicly until Monday, are James Brennan, Donna Duggan, Conor O'Brien, Cindy Laporta and Dennis Raico, according to Talking Points Memo.

Each of the witnesses are connected to financial institutions, according to The Washington Post's Rachel Weiner.

Two expected witnesses in the case, Washington lobbyists Tony Podesta and Vin Weber, whose firms allegedly participated in a public relations campaign for Ukraine with Manafort, are not among the immunized witness, Talking Points Memo reported.

U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis granted them immunity to speak freely while testifying about Manafort [....]

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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/398415-identities-of-5-witnesses-immunized-to-testify-against-manafort

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Manafort trial postponed to July 31

By Darren Samuelsohn @ Politico.com, Updated 07/23/2018 07:37 PM EDT

[....] Potential jurors will still gather starting Tuesday at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, when Ellis said he will begin briefing them on the particulars of the first of Mueller's high-profile cases to reach trial.

Delivering his ruling on the start date from the bench, Ellis agreed to give Manafort’s defense attorneys more time to review thousands of pages of evidence that they’ve recently received from Mueller’s prosecutors. That includes materials obtained from Rick Gates, the longtime Manafort business partner who pleaded guilty in February and whose cooperation with the special counsel is expected to factor into the upcoming court case.

Ellis, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan, also warned prosecutors for Mueller and Manafort’s defense attorneys that they would not be allowed to quiz potential jurors on whether they supported Trump or Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.

“We’re not going to go inquire into how people voted,” Ellis said [....]

by artappraiser on Tue, 07/24/2018 - 12:54am

Cost of making friends and influencing voters, donors, etc.: Tad Devine quoted Rick Gates $10,000 a day including for travel time. Apparently that does not include airfare:

In 2014 Devine comes back, tells Rick Gates his rate will be $10,000 a day pic.twitter.com/JrDCJrpVRY
— Rachel Weiner (@rachelweinerwp) July 26, 2018

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/26/2018 - 7:15pm

Saw this days ago (note that it's me highlighting Twitter (badly) - ha!)

by barefooted on Thu, 07/26/2018 - 7:36pm

Delete duplicate.

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/26/2018 - 9:12pm

Thanks I didn't know about the Bernie relationship, only his work for Dems in more olden days. Russia here, Russia there, Russia everywhere.

[Copying a tweet is easy here. You go to the upper right error on the tweet and chose "Embed tweet", copy that code that pops up, and here at Dagblog chose the green movie film icon "Embed Media" and paste the code in the box it gives you, click ok. That's it, done. Only glitch sometimes is I find it often won't preview the comment--but will work when you publish. But who does preview around here anyway, hah? Seems we all edit after we post. ]

by artappraiser on Thu, 07/26/2018 - 9:11pm

ACK!! Nobody previews but me? I live for the preview ... and am now second-guessing myself ... which is why I preview ... ACK!!

Thanks for the info, I have saved it in a word document.

by barefooted on Thu, 07/26/2018 - 9:28pm

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