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Paul Manafort’s home purchases
From Harper’s Weekly Review: … [Manafort] laundered at least $18 million of that money through the purchase of Range Rovers, landscaping and housekeeping services, antique rugs, men’s clothing, and several homes, including a condo in Manhattan, which he rented on … Continue reading
Posted in Law, suits and order, Politics, Strictly for bitter laughter, The Facts of Life
Tagged extradition treaties, Harper's Magazine, Harper's Weekly Review, Manafort Brooklyn brownstone, Paul Manafort, Paul Manafort homes, the Vatican, Uzbekistan, Vietnam
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The Facts of Life and the Manafort indictment
I just listened to Manafort’s attorney, declaiming from the courthouse steps immediately after his client was indicted, stating there was no evidence of collusion with the Russians. Which is what they’ve been saying all along. Well, folks, what he really … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life
Tagged can an indictment be added to, Manafort indictment, Paul Manafort, Robert Mueller investigation, supplemental indictments, what is an indictment
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Part 2. Triple Cross: an eerie encounter with Russian spies
Somewhere in the middle of my tandem read and re-read of A Spy Among Friends and Tinker Tailor, I began to smell odors emitting from our immediate Russian spy situation in the United States. Which often reads more like fiction … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged Ben Macintyre, Carter Page, CIA, David Cornwell, Donald Maclean, FBI, Guy Burgess, Harold Macmillan, J. Edgar Hoover, James Angleton, Jared Kushner, Jeff Sessions, Kim Philby, Marcus Lipton, MI5, MI6, Paul Manafort, Spy Among Friends, The Third Man, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
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