OA118: Indictment Monday & the View From Yodel Mountain

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🗓️ 3 November 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Today's rapid-response episode tackles -- of course -- the indictment of former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and his protege, Rick Gates, as well as the guilty plea entered by Trump campaign official George Papadopoulos. What does it all mean? Listen to a special full-length episode and find out! After our full discussion, we end with a timely new Thomas Takes the Bar Exam Question #48 about co-conspirator confessions. Remember that you can play along with #TTTBE by retweeting our episode on Twitter or sharing it on Facebook along with your guess. We'll release the answer on next Tuesday's episode along with our favorite entry! Recent Appearances Andrew was a guest on Episode 6 of the How-To Heretic Podcast; give it a listen! Show Notes & Links

You can (and should) read the Papadopoulos statement of offense.
Papadopoulos has pled guilty to providing a false statement to a government official, 18 U.S.C. § 1001.
After that, you can read the Manafort and Gates indictment by clicking here.
Manafort and Gates are collectively charged with 12 crimes, including conspiracy to commit an offense against or to defraud the United States, 18 U.S.C. § 371; conspiracy to launder money,18 U.S.C. § 1956; seven counts of record-keeping violations under 31 U.S.C. § 5314; two separate violations of the Foreign Agent Registration Act, 22 U.S.C. § 612 et seq.; and, of course, providing false statements to a government official, 18 U.S.C. § 1001.

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0:00.0	Is that why you hit your wife with drawn?
0:04.8	Is that why you drink and pop pills with drawn?
0:07.7	Are you a virgin with drawn?
0:20.0	That's here you robbed a hospital.
0:22.8	How'd you do that?
0:24.0	Yeah, I'm not guilty.
0:25.2	That's not what the other lawyer said.
0:30.9	Actually, I was going to stay in my office tonight and work on my law blog.
0:34.3	Of course, the Bob-Law-Law-Law-Law-Law blog.
0:37.4	Wow, you, sir, are a mouthful.
0:45.7	The jury is instructed to disregard its own testimony.
0:48.8	Your honor, the prosecution rest.
0:54.9	Welcome to Opening Arguments, a podcast that pairs an inquisitive interviewer with a real-life lawyer.
1:00.0	This podcast is sponsored by the Law Offices of P. Andrew Torres, LLC for Entertainment purposes,
1:05.3	is not intended as legal advice and does not form an attorney-client relationship.
1:09.4	Don't take legal advice from a podcast.
1:18.8	Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments.
1:20.4	This is episode 118.
1:22.1	I'm your host, Thomas Smith.
1:23.2	That over there is your other host, Andrew Torres.
1:25.2	Esquire, how are you doing, Andrew?
1:26.9	I am warming up my yodel pipes.
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