Mueller can't show any Russian contacts by Manafort

Daily Caller:
The special counsel’s office has told lawyers for Paul Manafort that it does not have evidence of any contacts between the former Trump campaign chairman and Russian government and intelligence officials.

That’s at least according to Manafort’s attorneys, who disclosed details of the interactions in court papers filed on Monday night.

The lawyers say they want a hearing to look government officials’ leaks to the media regarding Manafort, a longtime political consultant who has been indicted on money laundering and bank fraud charges.

“By their actions, it is self-evident that the objective of these government sources was to create unfair prejudice against Mr. Manafort and thereby deprive him of his Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights,” wrote Manafort lawyers Kevin M. Downing and Thomas E. Zehnle. (RELATED: Here Are The Questions Robert Mueller Wants To Ask Trump)

The court filing, submitted in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, lists seven news articles about the Manafort investigation that rely on U.S. government sources.

“The government-sourced leaks concerning surveillance of Mr. Manafort with foreign individuals is particularly troubling,” the attorneys wrote.

Downing and Zehnle say that they have filed “multiple” requests for discovery with the special counsel’s office for any evidence of Manafort’s contacts with Russian government or intelligence officials.

They wrote that the special counsel’s office, which is being led by Robert Mueller, “has not produced any materials to the defense — no tapes, notes, transcripts or other material evidencing surveillance or intercepts of communications between Mr. Manafort and Russian intelligence officials, Russian government officials (or any other foreign officials.)”

“The Office of Special Counsel has advised there are no materials responsive to Mr. Manafort’s requests,” they add.

The lawyers assert that “the natural implication of this is that these government leaks were intentionally designed to create a false narrative in order to garner support for the appointment of a Special Counsel to investigate Mr. Manafort for purportedly coordinating with Russian intelligence/government officials despite the lack of any such evidence.”

“If this proves to be true, then Mr. Manafort should not have been referred to the Special Counsel for investigation of coordination with the Russian government, nor for any other matters,” they wrote.
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This is more evidence of how bogus the Russian scam by the Democrats was and how it was used to attack those who worked on the Trump campaign.  It makes the pursuit of Trump for questioning look ludicrous too.  The attempt to imply obstruction of justice for a non-crime makes no sense.  Mueller should shut down his operation and resign.

Comments

  1. David4:20 PM

    Mueller’s ‘pit bull,’ Andrew Weissmann, was a former Eastern District of New York Assistant U.S. Attorney, who with-held evidence (Discovery) in a major organized Crime case, in fact Weissmann has a history of taking shortcuts. Had several cases reversed on him.

    Remember Judge Sullivan who took over Flynn case, knows Weissmann, others on Mueller staff delayed Flynn sentencing, told Mueller to give every shred of evidence he had on Flynn to the court, Flynn lawyers.

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