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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Process Crimes Expert Bob Mueller argues Manafort has not accepted responsibility
2019-03-06
Sort of goes along with a plea of 'NOT GUILTY'.
[The Hill] Special counsel Robert Mueller is pushing back on Paul Manafort's claim that he has accepted responsibility for his crimes and deserves a lighter sentence.

"The defendant blames everyone from the Special Counsel’s Office to his Ukrainian clients for his own criminal choices," Mueller said in a response Tuesday to the former Trump campaign chairman's sentencing memo.

"Manafort suggests, for example, that but for the appointment of the Special Counsel’s Office, he would not have been charged in connection with hiding more than $55 million abroad, failing to pay more than $6 million in taxes, and defrauding three financial institutions of more than $25 million dollars," he continued.

Manafort is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday afternoon in his criminal case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The former Trump campaign chairman was convicted over the summer of eight criminal charges: five counts of filing false tax returns, two counts of bank fraud and one count of failing to report foreign bank accounts.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  I'm no tax expert but can't help wondering, if somebody pays you money overseas and you keep the money overseas what business is it of the IRS?

The IRS claims the ability to tax U.S. residents on their overseas income. Only one other country does this - Eritrea.
Posted by: Raj   2019-03-06 21:16  

#7  I'd rather be a hotshot guitarist like Kirk Hammet, but that ain't happening.

What I know is this - Manafort has withstood at least one IRS audit without any adverse findings. I believe Mueller simply threatened him with fraud (and more financially crippling legal bills), and Manafort folded his hand.
Posted by: Raj   2019-03-06 21:11  

#6  Yes.
Posted by: Raj   2019-03-06 21:05  

#5  I'm still trying to figure out how Mueller came to this conclusion (i.e., tax evasion / fraud) when the IRS did not.

I seem to recall that you are a hotshot tax accountant, Raj.
So you’re asking this question as a knowledgeable professional, right?
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-03-06 20:45  

#4  Abu - FACTA is short for Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. Click on the link.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2019-03-06 18:45  

#3  I'm no tax expert but can't help wondering, if somebody pays you money overseas and you keep the money overseas what business is it of the IRS?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-03-06 11:36  

#2  failing to pay more than $6 million in taxes,

I'm still trying to figure out how Mueller came to this conclusion (i.e., tax evasion / fraud) when the IRS did not.
Posted by: Raj   2019-03-06 09:51  

#1  Mueller, future spokesman for "Depends".

Manafort on the other hand was one wealthy (thus evil) SOB. I'm still waaaaay on back order for my ostrich feather coat.
Posted by: Woodrow   2019-03-06 05:34  

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