Manafort has spent 18 months investing all his efforts in a pardon strategy, led largely by Kevin Downing. Before Downing left the steps of Prettyman Courthouse, Cy Vance had utterly flipped reversed any value of a pardon for Manafort.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) March 13, 2019
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. today announced the indictment of PAUL MANAFORT, 69, for a yearlong residential mortgage fraud scheme through which MANAFORT and others falsified business records to illegally obtain millions of dollars
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) March 13, 2019
Even pathological liars tell the truth when they think that it will help their cause.
Sammy “the Bull” Gravano and Michael Cohen for example.
The FBI protected the activities of gangster Whitey Bulger up in Boston for decades because he was helping them bust up the Italian mob.
In court yesterday Manafort indicated that both the State Department and the CIA were aware of his activities in Ukraine and Russia and gave him the greenlight to carry on.
Both the Department of State and the CIA were getting valuable intelligence from him according to Manafort.
Nothing appears as it seems when you go through the looking glass.