A few news items that seem like they’re related to the topic:
Butina’s boyfriend charged with fraud and money laundering:
No proper indictment to see, so pretty vague.
More interesting, because it’s a hell of a leak at this point I’m time, is information that Papadopoulos and Sergei Millian (Source D in the Steele Dossier) were arranging some sort of business deal?
Wait, Vashukevich is under 18?
No? It looks like she’s currently 28.
girl: a young or relatively young woman.
Reading through the whole Washington Post article about Millian, I would certainly put him in the general category of “shady character”. Minus documentary evidence, I would probably be inclined to believe that he’s mostly a BS artist and take any statement he made with a huuuuge grain of salt.
Of course, that’s also the sort of person that Trump would be inclined to do business with, and it looks like he was aware of the Trump Moscow project, and was giving the same story about it as Cohen. Given that we’re all only just recently having any sort of confirmation about the existence of the Trump Tower Moscow deal, it does feel like he had access within Trump-land proper, not just Papadopoulos.
It’s also strange that he seems to be in hiding. That seems unnecessary if he was just slinging BS at every path.
As in, younger than 18.
As in, relatively young to me.
Whitaker is refusing to testify unless the House gives written assurances that they won’t use the subpoena they authorized yesterday. I’m not sure he understands how subpoena’s work.
Manafort lyin’ trial (which took place just a few days ago) transcript:
They’re using a monospaced font so figuring out the text is pretty easy in some places. They start talking about a “********** scheme” on page 27. There’s not a lot of things termed X scheme, that I can think of, so it’s either blackmail or laundering and the length matches laundering.
This, then, becomes fairly interesting at the top of page 33, where we find out that the laundering matter has been sealed because of its relevance to ************************. Assuming I counted right that’s a match for “the President of the USA”. Though, at that length, and without more elaborate context, that one is far less certain.
The laundering matter does seem to be related to the campaign though. They are saying that Manafort was part of it to increase his liquidity, which is then correlated in some manner to the fact that he was working for free for the Trump campaign.
Still reading…
“I refuse to testify unless you agree not to make me testify” is a…unique…argument. I assume he’s also said that he will only drive the speed limit if the police agree not to give him a speeding ticket.
Where exactly did Mr Law-Talking-Guy get his law degree? From a Happy Meal?
Trump University.
ISTR that he’s licensed only in the state of West Virginia, FWIW.
It says here, that Mueller’s investigation is a profit-making venture! (Although of course not intended as such.) The forfeitures by the criminal Manafort exceed the cost of the investigation. (Where does such money go? Ignoring private claimants to some of the Manafort money, does the government’s net revenue from such forfeitures go to fund DoJ investigations? Or just into a U.S. Treasury general fund?)
Maybe it should go towards peoples’ tax refunds. 
they are looking into lifting the sanctions on Russia as a big part of the deal with Russia
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/10/us/politics/manafort-mueller-russia-inquiry.html
It just goes into the Treasury, just like everything else. From what I understand, only Congress can authorize the spending of money, and any revenue generated by government operations that Congress has not authorized the department to reinvest in its own operations would simply get thrown on the pile. I have no idea if Congress has authorized anyone to use their own funds generated by their operations to spend money beyond their original appropriation, but I assume it’s possible for the same reason that Congress often explicitly lets the Executive branch write regulations to fill in the blanks of some laws that Congress doesn’t want to deal with the details of.
(Emphasis added.) I think the correct idiom for this case is “thrown into the pit”.
Looks like the report will be done as early as next week based on CNN
But as late as… indefinitely.
Like I said before, when Mueller himself says the report is almost done, I’ll believe him. Anyone else is just blowing hot air.
Rosenstein *was *going to resign in mid-February, presumably when Mueller no longer needed protection from firing. Now it’ll be mid-March, although Barr is now in place as AG and it shouldn’t matter when Rosenstein leaves anymore. So maybe Barr isn’t going to do it either? Maybe it’s just too late to save Individual-1 anyway?