08-10-2017, 12:35 PM
(08-09-2017, 12:32 PM)David Horn Wrote:(08-09-2017, 10:22 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: Manafort was raided this morning by the FBI.
The pace is quickening. This investigation may come to a head much sooner than I expected originally. I'll be shocked if it leads to nothing.
Speculating on possible objects of investigation: bank records, travel itineraries, and any contractual materials. If any of these were present and they look at all incriminating he might be grilled for tax evasion, being an unregistered foreign agent, or money laundering.
Even importer-exporters who deal heavily with one overseas firm often register as foreign agents.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.