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You know and obviously thats not an accident. >> let me ask you about the dynamic where fabrizio as far as we know has spoken with muellers office at least a couple times. hes described in court filings i think we can now sort of see it the way weve given you this window. we can see him being described as the person that gave prosecutors what they believe to be true and corroborated information about that payment to paul manafort while manafort himself was lying about it over and over again. do ...

Prosecuted for treason in december. most of the attention is going to be on manafort and the expectations for the second sentencing but the flynn news could be really big, as well. then the next day, long-time trump political advisor roger stone will be back in court likely to be there in person and could be a dramatic day in part because of the legal wrangling between the two over roger stone has again violated the gag order that that judge has put on him in this case. roger stones status repor...

They have spoken repeatedly with tony, with the guy that did pay paul manafort this money while paul manafort lied to them about it over and over and over again and in the course of figuring out the truth of that payment, muellers office also uncovered a little bit of a kickback scheme. not particularly sophisticated system by which these guys were basically skimming off a bunch of money people donated at the super pac and keeping it for themselves. they discovered the truth of the payment and d...

But christina appears to have figured out what happens next. as have the special counsels office who have been pursuing the case against manafort in two federal courtrooms and specifically have litigated this point with the judge about why paul manafort lied about this payment. so the pac that manafort approached to pay the legal bills was the biggest pro trump pac. he would finance and wouldnt need to take in donations from anybody. this was the biggest one that took in over $24 million in dona...

Guy who was apparently part of this cash kick back scheme who is apparently part of this whole mysterious $125,000 payment that manafort is going to die on a hill lying about, i mean, the three players in the drama are paul manafort, tony fabrizio and this other guy who manafort put in charge of the pac. the god father of his friends daughter and worked with manafort back in the 80s and the lobbying firm with roger stone. and in addition to manafort installing him with the super pac kick back an...

He hire tony fabrizio ad buying firm and that fabrizio and gay. one mans kick back scheme and they set up a secret commission split and essentially overcharged these donors and i heard from lawrence gays lawyer and he says his client has done nothing wrong. hes a criminal defense attorney and so we will see. gays voice is very absent from these court documents. you know, whereas they are often obvious references to manafort, interviews and obvious references tony fabrizios role. hes the truth te...

Long-standing work colleague of manafort dating back decades and reportedly god father to one of paul manaforts daughters. what cnbc is reporting is that when manafort in june 2017 asked this protrump super pac this is after the campaign, campaign has been over and manafort goes to this pro trump super pac and wants $125,000. we now can tell basically the answer was yes but. yes, paul, you can have the money but youre not going to get it from me exactly. instead, you should get it to the other p...

Sentence manafort on wednesday, shes the judge that took manaforts guilty pleading and signed off on the plea agreement he made with prosecutors. she ruled from the bench he broke the agreement because yes, she ruled in court he did intentionally lie to prosecutors on multiple occasions on material matters. this is the same judge that put manafort in jail in the first place. last june. this was the judge that ruled he had violated his bail conditions by tampering with witnesses while he was out ...

Okay. hes of interest. what about him? about his role in this? this guy is a guy named lawrence gay. he appears to be at this point basically the beleaguered spotlight excuse me, spotlight at the center of a five-way intersection of trump related scandals and criminal investigations. how does lawrence gay fit? is he talking to prosecutors? if fabrizio is talking to investigators about this role of the skimming kick back and how it connected to getting cash to manafort, okay. we know about manafo...

The ten felony charges on which he had the hung jury in his first federal trial in virginia and most importantly, he pledged to cooperate with prosecutors in the special counsels office. that was the deal manafort tried to make to save his own skin on the eve of what would have been his second federal trial. and that is what blew up. when prosecutors came back to the judge in d.c. to judge amy berman jackson and told her, hey, judge, dont think of this guy as a cooperator. do not give him any cr...