Tom Barrack Acquitted on All Counts
EDNY lost all its counts against Tom Barrack.
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EDNY lost all its counts against Tom Barrack.
DOJ superseded Tom Barrack’s indictment, adding language about how he tried to “harvest assets” from his ability to direct policy in the Trump Administration.
According to DOJ, Tom Barrack’s defense team was paying his former Executive Assistant $15,000 as part of his defense team.
As part of a discovery dispute, Tom Barrack has argued that rather than betraying Trump by ensuring that Trump would cater US foreign policy to rich Gulf Arab states, Trump knew (and apparently, approved) of his actions.
A filing in the Tom Barrack case makes it clear that EDNY may supersede Barrack’s indictment to add not-yet indicted co-conspirators, the most obvious of whom might be Steve Bannon.
In response to Tom Barrack’s argument that he should have been charged early enough for Trump to pardon him, DOJ notes that he has referenced nothing unavailable now that might have provided a defense unavailable now.
Tom Barrack complains he wasn’t charged two years earlier, when Trump could have pardoned him out of his troubles.
If the alleged lies Tom Barrack told in a June 20, 2019 interview are really clearcut, it’ll make it a lot harder to use several of his most likely defense strategies.
According to the first charges filed against Tom Barrack’s alleged co-conspirator, Paul Manafort had a much bigger role in Barrack’s successful influence over a Trump speech than the current indictment reveals.
Tom Barrack gave a short explanation of his role in editing a Trump Energy speech when Mueller’s team interviewed him in December 2017, including describing Paul Manafort’s role in the process.