8/24/2018

PAUL MANAFORT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATIOM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The photos of Paul Manafort’s ostrich and python jackets may make it in front of a jury after all. After prosecutors used the luxury purchases as evidence in the former Trump campaign chairman’s Virginia trial this month but weren’t permitted by the judge to show photos of them to the jury, they told the federal court in DC on Friday [8-24-18] that they’d like to use the pictures at his second criminal trial next month. Photographs of ‘clothing with Alan Couture labels’ — which went viral after prosecutors pointed out in the Alexandria federal courtroom the $15,000 ostrich jacket Manafort had bought from the custom menswear boutique — have resurfaced on prosecutors’ list of exhibits for the second trial. Manafort’s other lavish purchases — for home improvements, high-end home audio-video equipment and luxury cars — may have an encore at the DC trial as well. Prosecutors filed the list for the Sept. 17 trial in DC federal court on Friday night. The very large joint filing from the special counsel’s office and Manafort’s defense team lays out the prosecution’s plans for the trial.”

Katelyn Polantz, “Manafort’s prosecutors hope to show ostrich jacket photo to DC jury,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, August 24, 2018 10:21 pm