Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Ben on June 04, 2019, 08:39:41 AM
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Low information news article, but I'm trying to think of any white color crime guys involved with previous administrations, either R or D, who were sent anywhere except to a club fed facility. This appears to be the state of NY specifically "sending a message" based on politics and TDS. I'm curious as to whether Manafort's lawyers will be able to use this to his benefit.
Those currently in charge of prosecution in that state are pretty blatantly political in their prosecutions of late.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/what-is-rikers-island
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Manafort is no saint, but he got hit pretty hard just in the pre-trial custody. I never was sure if he deserved it or if Mueller just had the judge signing off on whatever he wanted. Sounds like nothing has changed for Manafort as this time the NY DA is getting the judge to do it.
Manafort’s transfer – which is expected as early as Thursday – was ordered by a New York State judge at the request of New York City District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. Manafort will be held in solitary confinement for his own protection, the source told Fox News.
So he is being moved to a more violent prison so he can be put into solitary confinement to "protect" him. Someone doesn't like this guy.
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Manafort is no saint, but he got hit pretty hard just in the pre-trial custody. I never was sure if he deserved it or if Mueller just had the judge signing off on whatever he wanted. Sounds like nothing has changed for Manafort as this time the NY DA is getting the judge to do it.
So he is being moved to a more violent prison so he can be put into solitary confinement to "protect" him. Someone doesn't like this guy.
Yeah, from everything reported in the media at least, he probably deserves some kind of criminal punishment. Yet Rikers seems pretty shady to me. At the same time that NY lets violent criminals out due to overcrowding and/or "diversity", they can put this guy in a cell by himself into an already overcrowded Rikers, along with the extra guard workload that goes with it? Smells bad to me.
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As I have stated elsewhere, Mueller was putting the screws to Manafort, Flynn, Papadopoluis, Cohen, etc. to try to get them to "flip" on Trump and confess to colluding with the Russians. Since there was no collusion, there was no way to "Flip".
Once Barr is done with his probe into the "why" of the FBI and CIA beginnings of the probe, I predict pardons all around...
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So he is being moved to a more violent prison so he can be put into solitary confinement to "protect" him. Someone doesn't like this guy.
More Alice in Wonderland logic from the liberals.
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. . . Since there was no collusion, there was no way to "Flip" . . .
With enough . . . "incentive" . . . from prosecutors, a LOT of people will come up with some useful testimony, sometimes even remembering things that never actually happened.
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With enough . . . "incentive" . . . from prosecutors, a LOT of people will come up with some useful testimony, sometimes even remembering things that never actually happened.
Just like at CNN
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Isn't Manafort already in prison in Pennsylvania? Why would PA extradite him to NY?
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Is it OK to shiv a Nazi?
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Interesting - even Shaun King and AOC are asking "WTF?"
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/legal-experts-stunned-by-das-barbaric-decision-to-send-manafort-to-rikers-island
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With enough . . . "incentive" . . . from prosecutors, a LOT of people will come up with some useful testimony, sometimes even remembering things that never actually happened.
The judge in his or the Flynn case said as much. Prosecutors want the defendant to sing, but after enough pressure they compose.
Same reason I have my doubts about the guilt of Eddie Gallagher. I was personally pressured by NCIS to confess to something that in no way ever happened and in fact the opposite of what happened. It is what the system does, it gets their man.
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Manafort spent a good part of his pre-trial confinement in solitary also. I remember seeing stories about how he looked in bad health.
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Manafort spent a good part of his pre-trial confinement in solitary also. I remember seeing stories about how he looked in bad health.
So did Maria Butina, IICR.
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I’ve read some conflicting stories about Manafort.
Trump invited a lot of his enemies right into his camp so proximity to Trump doesn’t really tell whose side anyone is on.
Our politics is like the Sopranos TV show. One is hard pressed to find any good guys, they’re all bad guys.
The team Trump is playing for appears to be the closest thing to being good guys.
At the minimum they don’t flaunt their hatred of me like every Democrat out there.
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If I remember right, Manfort was only with the Trump campaign for a few months. It isn't like he was a long time trusted friend or something. That is about enough time to realize you messed up on a hire and replace them.