VegasAg86 said:
aggiehawg said:
Here's the crux of the matter.
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In July 2018 if the DOJ-NSD had admitted the FISA application and all renewals were fatally flawed Robert Mueller would have needed to withdraw any evidence gathered as a result of its exploitation. The DOJ in 2018 was protecting Mueller's poisoned fruit.
I get to ask my "how does this affect Manafort" question again. Will be interesting to see.
How many convictions arose out of the Mueller investigation? Manafort, Gates, Flynn, Papadopoulos, Stone (his was lying to Congress, though). What about Cohen? Did they use FISA evidence to get the warrants for his office?
Manafort was scum. BUT it likely did affect his trial in some way since he was one of the few named in the Steele Dossier. Enough to overturn his conviction? No idea.
The EDVa had dropped their investigation into Manafort in 2014. Team Mueller revived it. Tolled the Statute of Limitations in secret. Did they use FISA gathered info to get the tolling? Again, don't know but it is possible. But I do know they didn't use the forged "black ledger" against him in the trial. Even Team Mueller knew that was bogus and using it would be an almost automatic reversal of his conviction on appeal. No chain of custody, nor business record exemptions, since it came solely from DNC operatives. Their only distancing from the subversive DNC elements.)
Ditto for Cohen. (FTR: I strongly suspect they did use false allegations for the warrants on Cohen, and most likely that info was FISAand Steele Dossier based.) Cohen taping his clients makes him scum, too.
Gates and Papadopoulus were guilty pleas not trials but their counsel should be going over their correspondence with Team Mueller with a fine toothed comb. Get the convictions off of their records, if they can.