Bigger fish, bigger sentences. Most especially if they’re uncooperative.
WTF community service could he do?
Food-taster for Mueller?
Good one. 
I like to picture him picking up trash on the highway.
Woodward’s book hasn’t been released yet - I think the press got advance copies. The release is Tuesday September 11.
The entire 428 page book may have an impact greater than a few excerpts and summaries and Bob Woodward has a credibility that Michael Wolfe ( and certainly Omarosa Manigault ) lacks. I think someone at the WH was trying to get ahead of the release and assure voters that there are adults in room, so they shouldn’t be afraid to vote Republican. But the adults in the room are stupid horrible cowardly adults trying to conceal the fact that all the rumors are really true and we really do a have an insane toddler in the Oval Office.
Oh shit, guys, this is big.
Geoffrey Berman, DA for the Southrren District of NY, just got a Russian computer hacker extradited to the US via Georgia, (Nation of). The hacker, named Andrei Tyurin (or Tiurin), was responsible for some of the biggest cyber attacks in the US, which resulted in crimes ranging from identity theft to stock manipulation.
Don’t forget: Identity theft was one of the tactics used by the Russian Internet Research Agengy, the group of Russians operating out of Miami who used fake ids to create web personas to spread agitprop in support of Donald’s campaign.
Mueller has already gotten a guilty plea from a man in the US (Pichard Pinedo (I know, right?)) who sold bank accounts and personal info to the Russians indicted for interfering in the US election and various online banking shenanigans.
Tyurin is possibly Pinedo’s Russian connection.
That indictment against Tyurin also mentions that he worked with Geri Shalon, who was arrested for his role in a bunch of financial malfeasence, including bitcoin fraud and the JP Morgan Chase identity theft last year. Shalon’s indictment mention a 3rd unnamed coconspirator. Tyurin is presumably that guy.
The wheels of justice …
Wow. That is big! I have a recollection that Manafort has a Tyurin connection as well.
Nice to see the loooonnnnnnggggg arm of the law reaching out where it must so effectively.
And nice, too, that the Trump Administration wasn’t able to keep this from happening. I’m thinking of the missiles-for-noncooperation deal that Trump did with Ukraine:
Bigly if true: Manafort is resuming plea negotiations in lieu of a second trial in DC.
(I assume prisoners do that in your state, too?)
My understanding is it’s a straight up plea arrangement, with no cooperation under consideration. He just wants to stop spending money on predictable outcomes.
The article linked strongly suggest Manafort expects a pardon on any federal charges.
Mike Pence says he’s “more than willing” to sit down with Mueller - rofl.
Relax, Mishka. He’s getting to you.
Great news!
By shear coincidence, a short time after the infamous Trump Tower meeting and a short time after the election, Russian billionaire and father of the man who set up the meeting Aras Agralov, secretly sent moneythrough shell companies to himself, his son and two people who attended that meeting.
Manafort just took a plea. No real details yet. Tomorrow should be huge.
Tangential. Feinstein refers a matter about Kavanaugh to the FBI. Also short on details but possibly about some misdoings in high school and a possible use of those basketball tickets as a means of hush payments. This is just a guess though.
Naw, Kavanaugh is about to get all Gym Jordaned in a #metoo fashion.
… since we’re guessing and all. 
Anyway, we surely don’t want a Supreme Court justice who is being investigated by the FBI, do we?
I think that is now a badge of honor.
Maybe, or maybe the Hastert Rule gets another asterisk. Kavanaugh went to an all-Boys school, you’ll recall.