I’ll guess Flynn. Boente resigned, for no reason stated. He was one of the people Comey went to when Comey was being pressured to drop the Flynn investigation. He was also involved in investigating Flynn. I suspect Boente resigned to be a witness against Flynn.
Flynn had also previously offered to testify in exchange for immunity. I’d guess that the indictment will be on Flynn, for a less than treason charge, in exchange for Flynn rolling.
Hillary’s involvement in the dossier should be investigated though. I hope it comes out that Hillary paid the full-bladdered Russian hookers personally. Then maybe Don Jr will tweet out the pee video as evidence against her. Because he really is that stupid.
I find it hard to believe that it hasn’t already been reported somewhere in the financials. If it hasn’t, then yeah, I’m all for investigating it and meting out the appropriate penalties against the campaign for failure to disclose. But we already know that the Trump campaign has “forgotten” to disclose things in their required paperwork.
The Manafort indictment has been expected and widely reported for some time. Key question remains: are the indictments for anything that Manafort (and/or Gates) did on behalf of the Trump campaign? Or is it for unrelated work that they did independently of their Trump roles?
That’s what the headline says. Which surprised me, as I was just expected financial crimes. But the body of the article doesn’t reference a specific change and says the charges are likely tax-related (like they don’t know what they specifically are yet). What’s going on?
I think you may be wrong about this. “Conspiracy against the United States” sounds like some sort of treasonous activity, which is what you seem to be implying. But I think it covers any two guys acting in concert to defraud the government. Sounds like tax charges to me. (See e.g. https://www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-923-18-usc-371-conspiracy-defraud-us)
I linked the indictment. There are a lot of charges. A quick perusal indicates there is a lot of evidence. Manafort is either flipping or spending the rest of his life in jail, his family penniless (“forfeiture” features in the indictment).
Not to mention the optics of having your campaign manager go down on a charge of “Conspiracy against the United States”.