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Judge in Manafort case goes after Mueller's prosecution

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The judge in the Manafort prosecution, TS Ellis III, goes after Mueller's team in court today.

"You don't really care about Mr. Manafort,” U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III told Mueller’s team. “You really care about what information Mr. Manafort can give you to lead you to Mr. Trump and an impeachment, or whatever." ...

Judge Eliot asked to be given the unredacted "scope memo" which got this entire investigation going. This is the same memo the Congress has been asking Rosenstein to turn over for almost a year. ...

Manafort’s attorneys argue the special counsel does not have the power to indict him on the charges they have brought – and seemed to find a sympathetic ear with Ellis. ...

The special counsel argues that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein granted them broad authority in his May 2, 2017 letter appointing Mueller to this investigation. But after the revelation that the team is using information from the earlier DOJ probe, Ellis said that information did not “arise” out of the special counsel probe – and therefore may not be within the scope of that investigation.


“We don’t want anyone with unfettered power,” he said.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...am-lying-trying-to-target-trump-cmon-man.html

To be fair and unbiased, here is CNN's version:

"You don't really care about Mr. Manafort's bank fraud," Ellis said to prosecutor Michael Dreeben, at times losing his temper. Ellis said prosecutors were interested in Manafort because of his potential to provide material that would lead to Trump's "prosecution or impeachment," Ellis said.

"That's what you're really interested in," said Ellis, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan.

Ellis repeated his suspicion several times in the hour-long court hearing. He said he'll make a decision at a later date about whether Manafort's case can go forward.

"We don't want anyone in this country with unfettered power. It's unlikely you're going to persuade me the special prosecutor has power to do anything he or she wants," Ellis told Dreeben. "The American people feel pretty strongly that no one has unfettered power."


https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/04/politics/paul-manafort-hearing/index.html

 
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