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What the world has learned is that America is never more than one election away from losing its goddamned mindMe on Elite : Dangerous | My WoW charactersOriginally Posted by Howard Tayler
Well, your politicians are bought and sold, duh.
Were those Republican or Democrat, btw? Or was it bi-partisan?
How does current Ukrainian President money-wiring center gets named?
Ah, right, it's now "The National Reforms Council with the assistance of the Ukrainian Foundation for Support of Reform in Ukraine", hiring BGR Group.
You might want to check who they paid too.
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I'm surprised no one has brought up how inept manafort was in leaving his paper trail for all of his fraud charges.
So the latest is new charges against Manafort. These are separate from the other new charges.
https://apnews.com/6ebdbd65b9744284a...-guilty%20plea
So people are suspecting this is former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder who was replaced by Merkel. He was recently given the chair of Rosnoft and he was at odds with Merkel over his defense of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The other suggestion is Austria's former chancellor Alfred Gusenbaur who worked at a thinktank concerned with Ukraine policy.Special counsel Robert Mueller is accusing President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman of secretly paying former European politicians to lobby on behalf of Ukraine.
The new allegation against Paul Manafort comes in a newly unsealed indictment made public Friday. The indictment followed a guilty plea by Manafort’s longtime business associate, Rick Gates.
The indictment accuses Manafort of paying the former politicians, informally known as the “Hapsburg group,” to appear to be “independent” analysts when in fact they were paid lobbyists. Some of the covert lobbying took place in the U.S.
The indictment says the group was managed by a former European chancellor. Court papers accuse Manafort of using offshore accounts to pay the group more than 2 million euros.
I don't know, but this seems like a really big deal. Like investigations starting in other countries.
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Rettig hasn't been confirmed yet.
And whoever it is has their work cut out for them. A brand new tax code and also budget cuts for helping people figure them out.
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More details emerge.
"More than $10,000" refers to the customs limit for the amount of cash you can bring in without declaration. There is no upper limit past that $10,000 and Manafort is accused of harboring millions.Gates also admitted that he helped Manafort mislead Manafort's tax preparer and did not disclose the accounts overseas, which had more than $10,000. He classified overseas payments as "loans," so that Manafort didn't have to pay taxes on them. Gates also did not report their existence on either tax or Foreign Bank and Financial Account Reports (FBAR). Gates admitted that he knew that it was illegal for a U.S. citizen to have an overseas bank account without reporting it to the IRS.
This nothingburger keeps on giving. We're going to have to upgrade it to a 5 course meal at some point.
Can't wait for 2019.
"Trump is not cooperating with Russian!"
Trump confirmed cooperating with Russians.
"Well all your politicians are corrupt so it was kind of obvious, duh. Now please accept this stupid deflection as if nothing happened."
I think the goalposts just his mach 3.
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Who is saying politicians aren't corrupt?
There's a big difference between selling your vote on a piece of legislation to a business and selling secrets to a hostile foreign government, however.
We are complaining about cancer and you're trying to talk about a broken leg to minimize the scare of cancer. It is fucking stupid.