Bobby Mueller revealed today that he accused Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager, of bank fraud above the charges that he’s already made against him.
More from Politico:
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office has told a federal judge it has found evidence that Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, committed bank fraud not addressed by the indictment last October in which he was charged with money laundering and failure to register as a foreign agent.
As legal wrangling continues over a $10 million bail package for Manafort, prosecutors this week accused him of submitting false information to a bank in connection with one of his mortgages.
But he hasn’t made any new charges against him yet:
No criminal charges are known to have been filed over the alleged fraud, and Mueller’s office does not say in the filing whether it intends to bring any.
HOWEVER THERE’S A BIG DEAL HERE:
The filing by Mueller’s office says Manafort obtained a mortgage using “doctored profit and loss statements” overstating “by millions of dollars” the income for his consulting company, DMP International. Prosecutors appear to be referring to a $9.5 million mortgage that Federal Savings Bank of Chicago extended in late 2016 to a Manafort-linked firm, Summerbreeze LLC.
Prosecutors’ references to “conspiracies” suggest that someone beyond Manafort was involved in the alleged fraud, but no further details were given.
Wait wha… “late 2016”? You mean… right when the election happened? Hmmmm…
People were dismissing the prior allegations against Manafort because the incidents were before his tenure on Trump’s campaign team – not so with these new allegations. And what’s with the other people involved with the “conspiracies”? Could it be that he’s holding back on these further charges in order to develop other possible indictments? Hmmmmm….