Mueller just dropped even more charges on Paul Manafort, that have to do with secretly paying former European politicians to lobby on behalf of Ukraine:
For the second time this week, Robert Mueller files new charges against Paul Manafort. https://t.co/oajjNzHx0r
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 23, 2018
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/967160666816761857
Here’s more:
AP – 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.
It’s starting to feel like Mueller is going to keep dropping charges on to Manafort until he rolls him. This is two days in a row now that charges have been leveled against him. And on top of that we’ve also heard a report that Mueller is investigating Manafort for using his position in the Trump campaign to get sweetheart loans in exchange for a White House job.
I read somewhere that Manafort criticized his buddy Gates for being to weak or something. But it sounds like Manafort is just about up to his eyeballs in charges of his own. How long can he hold out?
Here’s the new indictment if you want to read it.