A lawyer who can’t spell Cyprus has a fool for a client.
Paul Manafort's lawyers misspelled Cyprus throughout his bail memo. pic.twitter.com/Ls9JI1WDbN
— Sigh Hersh (@Ugarles) November 2, 2017
So much strange stuff swirling around the Russia investigation. That’s why I think we just don’t know where it’s headed. Yes, maybe Manafort will clam up but with lawyers like this, who could predict what he’s going to do?
catclub
Cypress Semiconductor investors?
Chyron HR
Is this another One Weird Sovereign Citizen Trick?
Gravenstone
B-Real must be laughing.
ranchandsyrup
He meant Sen-Dog and B-Real of Cypress Hill, clearly. He ain’t goin out like that.
PaulWartenberg
Just want to mention to the Balloon-Juicers here, a cross-note from the TNC Horde to y’all:
“My dad’s having some major health issues — TL;DR after falling a lot at home he’s been doing a hospital tour and is now in a rehab place. It’s kept him offline for more than a week and he’d like someone to let them know he’s still alive and doing fine and will be back eventually.
I talked to him on the phone just now and mentioned the Horde in passing when he asked about the layoff, and he asked if I could have someone in the Horde who still overlaps in both places basically post an “EFGoldman is ok” message so, here I am, checking in.”
So, to note: EFGOLDMAN IS OKAY!
Doug!
@PaulWartenberg:
Thanks a lot!
PaulWartenberg
And for the lawyer who can’t spell Cyprus: it’s not so much that the lawyer is over-relying on his Wordperfect Spell-Checker, it’s that the idiot flunked out of high school World History class.
Mnemosyne
@PaulWartenberg:
Phew! It might be handy if you could email that to Adam or Cheryl (they should have contact forms on the front page) and they can front-page it.
TenguPhule
Aren’t these the same lawyers required to testify against him?
germy
@PaulWartenberg:
That’s a relief!
Someone should tell the folks at LawyersGunsMoneyBlog; he comments there as well.
germy
@PaulWartenberg:
One of those guys who whined to the teacher “Why do I hafta learn this crap? How is it going to help me make money when I graduate?”
Yutsano
@PaulWartenberg: Frabjous! I had been worried about the old codger. Pretty sure Doug! will get the news about.
gvg
Also, I think I read here recently that certain states in America have such lax bank law enforcement that they are as bad as off shore accounts. I believe Connecticut was one of the states named? So the lawyer doesn’t know what he is talking about?
Major Major Major Major
@PaulWartenberg: Thanks! Woohoo!
gvg
@germy: Someone should pin the news to the front page, otherwise people will keep asking over in over in multiple threads.
glad he is doing ok.
Miss Bianca
@PaulWartenberg: yay, some good news on a shit sandwich day! Thanks for passing this along!
fuckwit
insane in the membrane
Major Major Major Major
@PaulWartenberg: Also: horde?
GregB
Cypress Shill.
Big clap for the news on EFGoldman,
mai naem mobile
They buried the money in a hole they dug under the Cypress tree. On a Dolt45 owned golf resort .
Just One More Canuck
@PaulWartenberg: Thanks Paul – great news
Gin & Tonic
“The majority of Mr. Manafort’s assets are in the United States.” Good one. I think the correct phrasing is “the majority of the assets that Mr. Manafort was willing to tell us about are in the United States.”
MomSense
@PaulWartenberg:
Oh thank dog. Thank you for the great news.
mai naem mobile
Sessions got caught in a lie with Poopoopadullesky. Hope he ends up in prison with a bunch of blackity blackity black people that he put in prison.
Spanky
Hey @Doug!: , seems like that’s worth front-paging.
lgerard
I hope everyone is enjoying National Deviled Egg Day!
It is also National Men Must Cook Day, which does not seem to be a coincidence to me.
germy
@mai naem mobile: Surely (if it came to that) he’d reside in some sort of “club fed” place?
MattF
The Witch-King of Angmar is the victim of FAKE NEWS
Gelfling 545
@PaulWartenberg: Good news!
smintheus
Is Manafort so cheap he won’t pay for a competent lawyer? I doubt it. Is he so stupid he can’t tell a good lawyer from a bad one? Maybe. Are the best lawyers refusing to have anything to do with him? Quite possibly. He’s got to be a marked man in Moscow, for starters. Then there’s the stink of crookedness about him.
Chris
Ucbeckibeckistanstan!
trollhattan
World’s most famous cypress.
smintheus
@mai naem mobile: Just look for the “W”.
Cacti
Here’s some news that would make our old friend Bob in Putinland’s head explode:
Ukraine government offers cooperation in Manafort prosecution and access to any information in their possession about his work for the Yanukovych regime.
Karma, you one mean mother.
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@mai naem mobile: Papadopoulos is a fun name to say.
Major Major Major Major
@trollhattan: I’ve been there!
Gin & Tonic
@Cacti:
West of the Rockies (been a while)
I assume everyone knows Sammy Three Chins has withdrawn?
Ryan
Don’t you know Manafort is loco?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RijB8wnJCN0
trollhattan
@Major Major Major Major:
It’s a nice neighborhood. They always eventually run me off–“Begone, prole!”
Corner Stone
@Cacti:
“Shut yo mouth!”
“But I’m talking bout Shaft!” -ing Paul Manafort right into the hottest of hot seats.
HeleninEire
@PaulWartenberg: That is the best news EVER. Thank you for sharing. LOL efg must be livid that he can’t post “Fuck em”
Really, really wonderful news.
mai naem mobile
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): I figure Papadopoulos is making a lot of people at the WH poop when they think about the conversations they had with him. That’s one of the majorly schadenfreud parts of this story . You’re already in a stressful job at the WH,made more stressful by Dolt45 and now you have to wonder about Papadopoulos. They’re all going to get stress ulcers and there’s not a more deserving group of people out there.
trollhattan
O/T but since he’s also in Trump’s cabinet I need to correct myself–Ben Carson was right!
Obvious grainery. Also history’s earliest bowling alley, pharaohs loved them some duck pins.
The Moar You Know
I learned a life lesson the real easy way a while back, one that Manafort hasn’t learned yet.
DO NOT CHEAP OUT ON YOUR LEGAL REPRESENTATION. It will cost you far more than you’d ever save.
ETA: also, I am still 12 years old somewhere in my brain, am fighting an overwhelming urge to spell his name “Manafart”.
Major Major Major Major
@trollhattan: I saw that and thought of Carson too! Lol.
trollhattan
@Corner Stone:
I can dig it.
Gin & Tonic
@mai naem mobile: I’m willing to bet Papadopoulos hasn’t really talked to a lot of people in the last few months. What I hope gives them agita is wondering who else they’re talking to that may be wearing a wire. That stuff can eat at you (and I hope it does.)
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@mai naem mobile: Truth. I like to picture them all shooting sharp looks at one another and being very careful in how they phrase things in case someone else is also wired.
Adrift
@PaulWartenberg: Thanks, Paul. I don’t post much but like everyone else here I get concerned when someone is gone for a while. So this is great news. (back to my semi-lurker status).
Edited for spelling errors, dammit.
trollhattan
@HeleninEire:
Here’s an EFG proxy: fuck ’em!
Also, too, great news, even if he’s cooped up and not running loose.
Wallis Lane
No problem, the lawyers were just assuming the funds came from Orange County:
trollhattan
@Major Major Major Major:
Mind-boggling that Carson could well be the cabinet’s sanest, most ethical member. Now let me go bury this bar deeper.
clay
@Gin & Tonic:
It’s another typo. They meant the majority of Manafort’s asses are in the United States.
Major Major Major Major
@trollhattan: I remember, seventeen years ago when the appointments were all happening, thinking that this might very well end up being the case.
GregB
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):
Someone on Twitter said Papadopolous was the Greek God of impeachment.
Patricia Kayden
@TenguPhule: Against who?
Gin & Tonic
@mai naem mobile: But the interesting aspect of Papadopoulos is his mentor in London, one Joseph Mifsud and his London Academy of Diplomacy, which has disappeared without a trace, both physically and on the Internet. Along with, apparently, Mifsud himself. Nowhere to be found. Odd, that, no?
Well, no, in fact.
Salvatore Napoli
Always golf with these yutzes. Also known as “Anal Rage and Checkered Berets”. Cypress Point: Golf course in Southern Cal. (thanks to the late DF Wallace for the golf definition)
TenguPhule
@mai naem mobile:
Not all black prisoners rape the new white meat. Some of them I assume are good people.
/snark
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@trollhattan: That’s “are you certain he isn’t dead?” Mattis. Oswald Bates may well be its least malicious member, however.
TenguPhule
@Patricia Kayden: Manafort.
hedgehog the occasional commenter
@PaulWartenberg: Excellent news–thanks!
rikyrah
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
rikyrah
@PaulWartenberg:
yeah!!!!!!
Major Major Major Major
@TenguPhule: Why’d you assume it was a rape joke?
hueyplong
When the shit goes down
Ya better be ready
(when the shit goes down)
trollhattan
Senator Franken does not like being lied to, not one bit.
Can a senator compel the AG to respond? I need to see whether I can accumulate sufficient popcorn before November 10.
Miss Bianca
@MattF: I’m hearing this whole thing in Andy Serkis’s voice.
p.a.
@PaulWartenberg:
:-))
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major: Because the alternative was a murder joke.
p.a.
Anyone know anything about the fedhed nominee?
Major Major Major Major
@TenguPhule: Maybe it was a joke about how they’d play keep-away with his dental floss.
Lyrebird
@PaulWartenberg:
Oh frabjous day, callooh callay!!!
Thanks much for sending word.
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major:
Do you really think so?
Kay
@trollhattan:
This is why Al Franken is my candidate for 2020 :)
Lyrebird
@trollhattan: DAYYUMMMMMM, Sen Franken!
My more pragmatic relatives are just hoping Orangemandias will resign & that we (“we” being “anyone who cares about governance”) retake Congress.
I would accept that outcome as better than the status quo, but boy oh boy if at least Sessions should see some consequences for his cruelty, his lying, ..anything really, that would go along way to remove the stain on our nation that this administration has created.
Major Major Major Major
@TenguPhule: honestly I just thought it was a comment about how being surrounded by the people whose lives he’d helped ruin would be just desserts. Hadn’t put any thought into what actions they might pursue. Sad that your mind jumped straight to rape.
Kay
@trollhattan:
I love that. Sessions really has to appear. He’s not like the rest of the Trumpsters. He’s supposed to be somewhat legit and law-abiding. If they make enough noise he’ll go.
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major: It was either rape or murder. I picked the lesser of two evils.
Major Major Major Major
@TenguPhule: Or, you know, regular less-heinous violence like a tube sock and a bar of soap. Good lord. ETA what is wrong with you that those are your only conceivable interpretations
Lyrebird
@Major Major Major Major: The very existence of people of color bothers Sessions, so yeah, keep-away, or just breathing!
Better yet, maybe the shampoo & skin care supplies available are all labeled with ultra “urban” marketing and so forth.
Yes I wish the prison system in the US of A was not a massive example of noxiously racist institutional bias, and I apologize in advance if I sound like I’m insulting anyone OTHER than Sessions. Who should serve many many years in prison, preferably only allowed shaving cream and aftershave that appeals to Black men, only allowed to style his hair with Jheri curl products, and so forth.
Note I do not wish violence or abuse on anyone,
so I hope that Sessions is removed from office ASAP.
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
Now you remember why you pied him, don’t you?
For any of these Trump assholes, just having to live in close proximity to minorities would be torture in and of itself.
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major: I’m not going to pretend our current prison system is anything other then what it is.
Major Major Major Major
@TenguPhule: And our prison system to you is just black dudes raping and murdering people. Got it.
O. Felix Culpa
@PaulWartenberg: Thank you! I’m so glad to hear that efg is ok. I look forward to his return.
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major: Now you’re just jumping to conclusions the voices in your head are telling you.
Mnemosyne
@TenguPhule:
Dude, go fuck yourself.
geg6
@PaulWartenberg:
Oh, what good news! Pass along my good wishes, if possible. Will be happy when he’s back among us jackals.
catclub
I wonder if Fox News will cover this wall-to-wall.
Mai.naem.mobile
@TenguPhule: just to clear this up it wasn’t a rape joke. It wasn’t even about violence against Sessions. I do want him to have just plain fear in him because 1/he thinks minorities are like that esp, blacks and 2/he’s more than happy to have minorities feel fearful just going about their lives. He needs to feel that same fear.
zhena gogolia
@PaulWartenberg:
Oh, thank you. I hope he knows we’re all thinking of him and missing him.
I have no idea what the TNC Horde is.
Major Major Major Major
@Mai.naem.mobile: @Lyrebird: There’s a shocker, TenguPhule misinterpreted a revenge fantasy as hideously violent.
Mai.naem.mobile
@PaulWartenberg: glad to hear efg is okay.
Corner Stone
@p.a.:
Apparently he’s not Obama picked Janet Yellen. And that’s enough.
Reportedly, he favors all the same low drag, no change policies that Yellen did. He’s just not her.
Major Major Major Major
@Corner Stone: Well, Trump nominated him, so I can tell you right now that he’s a bad choice.
Ruviana
@zhena gogolia: I’m assuming followers of Ta-Nahisi Coates. Don’t know if they all still post at the Atlantic but they used to.
Corner Stone
Why, oh why, does MSNBC keep booking this fucking Pence surrogate spokesperson on their air?
Miss Bianca
@TenguPhule: errr…according to my friends who work in the prison system, crimes of violence against inmates tend to follow the same racial trends as on the outside. In other words, white on white, black on black. Just sayin’.
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
He once used a vending machine so has more than sufficient experience with matters fiscal.
;)
Immanentize
@TenguPhule:
WTF is WRONG with you? Do you have more funny rape jokes to share with us? Because your murder and torture jokes are soooo very funny.
Really, you need help.
Corner Stone
DAMN! Nicolle just dropped it on that fool like it’s hot! “We will call Fox and get you a booking on there but what you’re saying is just not true,”
BOOM!
Corner Stone
She is going THE FUCK OFF on this Pence clown. Right into the break at full volume!
FlipYrWhig
@catclub:
“I can’t believe she’d be THAT willing to continue to associate with a creepy past-his-prime celebrity facing sexual assault allegations!” said friends of Donald Trump.
Major Major Major Major
My CNN alert says J-Kush has turned over documents to Mueller re: his role in the Comey firing.
Corner Stone
@Major Major Major Major: JarJar said what, now?!
There are *documents* by him on this?!!
Mnemosyne
@catclub:
Least surprising accusations ever. Ratner’s been notorious for years.
I predict that Peter Berg is also going to be going down, because he and Ratner are partners in crime.
Corner Stone
@FlipYrWhig: “You won’t believe this One Weird Trick to avoid covering up for some guy you haven’t talked to but twice in ten years! Click Here For More!”
germy
Mnemosyne
@Mai.naem.mobile:
For someone like Sessions, just having a non-white cellmate would drive him insane.
Immanentize
@Major Major Major Major: Excellent. Can’t wait to see the Trump and Kushner drafts of the final firing letter.
FlipYrWhig
@Corner Stone: Beam, eye, some assembly required.
germy
Senator Franken wrote a letter to Sessions.
Immanentize
@Mnemosyne: In the most recent pictures of Ol’ Jeff (with extra “Honor Sauce”) it looks like his nose is one of a drinker. Not a full-on Bannon, but a cosmetically covered blotchy nose none the less. Anyone have any insights into his drinking habits?
Corner Stone
Steve Schmidt is in NFLTG mode. I know, I know. But still. It’s kinda fun to watch now.
Corner Stone
@Mai.naem.mobile: I still think he’s living his best life as AG. Trashing laws that protect minorities and women and dope smokers and all the fun things that little Klan Elf enjoys.
But it does make you wonder. How many times a day does he wish he were still in a safe seat for life in AL?
Major Major Major Major
@Immanentize: Rosacea is not uncommon in the Irish or English or whatever he is. Bannon though, fucker has some major gin blossoms.
zhena gogolia
@Mnemosyne:
Oh say it isn’t so. I love Peter Berg. The Last Seduction!
Immanentize
Also good news today — Lamar Smith from Texas is not running for Congress in 2018. I have long said we need to watch the retirements for signs of how the next election will go. And so far, it looks great for Nancy Smash to once again wield the gavel.
Immanentize
@Major Major Major Major:
That man, Suh, is a Southerner!
Major Major Major Major
@Immanentize: Scotts-Irish then.
Immanentize
@zhena gogolia: I love that movie too. You know it got ousted from the Academy awards because it was shown on HBO (I think it was) before theatrical release. Made me mad at the time.
geg6
@Mnemosyne:
Oh, I’d love to see Berg go down. He’s a total asshole.
Immanentize
@Major Major Major Major: Just like Senator Jim Webb!
MJS
@Immanentize: No specific insight, but I’m guessing whatever he drinks he uses an aperitif glass, and does so to stave off the vapors.
FlipYrWhig
@MJS: J. Beauregard Sessions, or Gilbert Dauterive: who said it? “This muggy November weather gives me the horribles.”
les
@p.a.:
I think he’s spent the last several years yelling that interest rates are too low and crippling inflation is just around the corner. Years of being wrong haven’t changed his mind–a perfect republican appointee.
Major Major Major Major
@FlipYrWhig: Remember Who Said It: Mitt Romney or Mr. Burns?
FlipYrWhig
@Major Major Major Major: NICE
marv
Always nice to have an Astral Weeks reference, Doug.
different-church-lady
@Cacti:
Why Vlad wanted to waste his money on us so damn badly I have no idea.
Can you image Bob’s performance review?
PUTIN: They keep telling you to fuck off.
BinP: Just give me one more month, I’m sure I can get them to vote Republican!
PUTIN: It’s not even top 10,000 blog! We need more than 108 votes to steal this thing!
ThresherK
DougJ
@marv:
Thanks. This song is one of my favorites
Miss Bianca
@different-church-lady: OK, now I’m sniggering over here at work. Only laugh I’ve had so far today, thx!
MoxieM
Yay! Phew.
marv
@DougJ:
me too. only listened to it a gazillion times over the years but never checked the lyrics till your post. I’ve had a couple words wrong all this time – o well, i believe i'[[ go walkin’ by the railroad…
J R in WV
Noted in the EFG thread how glad I am to hear that he’s doing better.
Now, about this legal fuss over where Paul’s bank accounts are. And rank accusations of error on his lawyers’ part. This is the biggest Fake News BS yet in this whole fakey newsey thing!!
You all have jumped to the conclusion that Paul’s bank accounts are at a bank in Cyprus, the famous island in the eastern Med, now split between Turkey and Greece.
So when his lawyers spelled the name of the city where Paul’s banking is ACTUALLY located, Cypress, Texas, the home of Cypress Bank, a full service bank located in Cypress, TX a well-known suburb of Houston, TX, it gave the libtards a chance to reveal themselves!!
Ignorance, thy name is Trumped!!
Oh, wait!!??// Cypress Bank isn’t in Cypress Tx, it’s in:
Pittsburg
Lone Star
Commerce
Mt. Pleasant
Oops!! My bad!…
Maybe the lawyers did make a mistake!??!!!
MoxieM
@MoxieM: EFG celebratory comment in wrong thread. Sigh.
Ruckus
@TenguPhule:
I’d most likely trust any of them over jeffery.
Steve Denvir
Wow, nice job on the headline. For the .005% who will get it :-)