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Would turn the jury against him. unnecessary to prove or disprove the specific changes that manafort is facing in virginia. the judge considered that argument today at length. there was a lot of back and forth about that, but the judge said no. they said the jurors need to know where paul manafort made his money and why he suddenly might have been in need of a new source of funds after his new money client went back to moscow to live in exile. the jurors will have to know about what happened to ...

Once we are here, everything ought to be in open court. the prosecutor said can i make one other point? the judge said yes. he said some of the witnesses we prepared out of abundance of caution, we are prepared to call the balances, but there is a chance we will not calling them. resealing them is admitting exposure and we dont call them as a witness. we are trying to be thoughtful. the judge,ings phi do it here in court, i issue an order, its going to be public. prosecutor, no question, your ho...

You didnt have access to your own bookkeeping records? correct. the judge it is really, mr. downing said yes. the judge said its your own book keeper. its your own book keeper until your book keeper gets a subpoena and demands and the judge said -- the judge said until what? >> mr. downing said they got the book keeper from the u.s. book keeper. they didnt do that and refused to turn the records over. he had conversations to get the files back. the judge said well, go to court and get the do you...

Intend to admit evidence about russia collusion, but we said that as a small portions of the trial deals with bank fraud relating to a particular bank. mr. manaforts role is relevant because a motivation to extend the loan not with standing the fraud was that the chairman sought and obtained a position in the trump campaign for mr. manafort and sought, but did not ultimately obtain a position in the trump administration. the judge said did this person know the information submitted was not accur...

How you calculate the expense other than dollars and cents. the judge considered that request from paul manafort to delay his trial in part because he hasnt reviewed his own bookkeeping records? judge? his book keeper wants to charge money to get them back to look at them. the way evidence unfolds in a case like this, if the government used evidence, the government has to show you what they are going to use and they need to provide copies of what they are going to use. paul manafort decided rath...

Hearing didnt hear this happen, but we know we just got this a few minutes ago. the judge. i received a number of motions that were under seal, requested to be under seal for the witnesses. why do they need to be under seal. these are witnesses granted immunity by the government and are reluctant or dont want to testify. therefore you are asking the court to issue an order because you granted immunity on their testimony. they still dont want to testify and you want an order. why should that be u...

So these are the people whose immunity deals were unsealed by the judge. these are not household names. these appear to be people who worked in services related to manafort. these two here are apparently former or current employees for kwc, manaforts accounting firm. this person is related to an insurance firm. that suggests it was involved with manafort getting big bank loans, but these two guys, these two guys are current or former employees of that little bank in chicago. furthermore savings ...

They can be forced to testify and the testimony cant be used against them as long as they dont lie in court. the judge today accepted all of those immunity deals and surprise, the judge also decided in court today in sort of one of those sessions you have seen in courtroom dramas on where the judge asked counsel to approach the bench and the people cant hear whats going on and it happens at the judges bench. thats how they had this discussion today. in that discussion that people in the courtroo...

The judge, and why wouldnt that be relevant? the judge decide that is the prosecutors won that argument. paul manaforts lawyers today tried to exclude from his trial any reference to manaforts time as chairman of the trump for president campaign. the judge also rejected that from manaforts lawyers. basically saying this is this allegation about manafort getting the $16 million from this chicago bank in exchange for him running the army. the judge today ruled yeah, whatever else we decide about t...

So he can run the army? two weeks before manafort gets kicked off the trump campaign, e-mail leads steve caulk professional bio. he is probably already calling him mr. secretary. now today in court, the why j in the case starred to show us the substance behind the allegations that have mostly been steled out in the press. the judge unsealed the fact that not just one, but two employees of this bank in chicago have been granted immunity in exchange for come as witnesses of the are prosecution. fi...