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US government wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman
US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, sources tell CNN, an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking campaign official now at the center of the Russia meddling probe.With a Picked Lock and a Threatened Indictment, Mueller’s Inquiry Sets a Tone:
The government snooping continued into early this year, including a period when Manafort was known to talk to President Donald Trump.
Some of the intelligence collected includes communications that sparked concerns among investigators that Manafort had encouraged the Russians to help with the campaign, according to three sources familiar with the investigation. Two of these sources, however, cautioned that the evidence is not conclusive.
Special counsel Robert Mueller's team, which is leading the investigation into Russia's involvement in the election, has been provided details of these communications.
A secret order authorized by the court that handles the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) began after Manafort became the subject of an FBI investigation that began in 2014. It centered on work done by a group of Washington consulting firms for Ukraine's former ruling party, the sources told CNN.
The surveillance was discontinued at some point last year for lack of evidence, according to one of the sources.
The FBI then restarted the surveillance after obtaining a new FISA warrant that extended at least into early this year.
Sources say the second warrant was part of the FBI's efforts to investigate ties between Trump campaign associates and suspected Russian operatives. Such warrants require the approval of top Justice Department and FBI officials, and the FBI must provide the court with information showing suspicion that the subject of the warrant may be acting as an agent of a foreign power. [...]
The White House declined to comment for this story. A spokesperson for Manafort didn't comment for this story.
Paul J. Manafort was in bed early one morning in July when federal agents bearing a search warrant picked the lock on his front door and raided his Virginia home. They took binders stuffed with documents and copied his computer files, looking for evidence that Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, set up secret offshore bank accounts. They even photographed the expensive suits in his closet.
The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, then followed the house search with a warning: His prosecutors told Mr. Manafort they planned to indict him, said two people close to the investigation.
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Date: 2017-09-22 04:10 am (UTC)Миллион долларов для организации Каллстрома Трамп выложил из своего кармана, но только после того, как попал под расследование Washington Post. Это знаменитое расследование, удостоенное Пулитцеровской премии, показало, что Трамп под видом благотворительности предпочитает раздавать деньги других людей.
Ныне он использует деньги других людей, чтобы оплачивать труд адвокатов, которые защищают его и его семью в Рашагейте.
U.S. President Donald Trump is using money donated to his re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee to pay for his lawyers in the probe of alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Following Reuters exclusive report on Tuesday, CNN reported that the Republican National Committee paid in August more than $230,000 to cover some of Trump’s legal fees related to the probe.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-lawyers-exclusive/trump-using-campaign-rnc-funds-to-pay-legal-bills-from-russia-probe-sources-idUSKCN1BU2OS
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Date: 2017-09-22 12:17 pm (UTC)А Вы - лжец и клеветник.
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Date: 2017-09-22 10:06 pm (UTC)В использовании денег других людей Трамп применяет нестандартные подходы.
"We'll lead the project like — it's called OPM. I do that all the time in business. It's called other people's money. There's nothing like doing things with other people's money."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/09/20/trump-brags-about-using-other-peoples-money/
Если в деньгах RNC он запускает руки в фонд,созданный для легальных нужд республиканской партии, то неиспользованные деньги, собранные на церемонию своей инаугурации он, судя по всему, тупо прикарманил.
It’s a minor Washington tradition that unused funds from presidential inauguration events are donated to charity. But nearly eight months after Donald Trump’s swearing-in celebration, no donations have been made from its record-breaking inaugural fund, and where the money went is mysterious.
http://fortune.com/2017/09/17/trump-inaugural-donations-missing/
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Date: 2017-09-22 10:30 pm (UTC)Именно, Вы лжец, и клеветник.
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Date: 2017-09-23 03:57 am (UTC)Впрочем, вы мне надоели. Идите нах.
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Date: 2017-09-23 04:14 am (UTC)Вы лжец, и клеветник.