The bad part is that the banks gave him the freaking money. More than $16 Million.

Manafort will likely be facing life in a maximum security prison . . . or, 15-25 years in a low-security country club in exchange for rolling over on Trump.

You seem to think that he will see that and realize he was as wrong as them. I think he will see that and think they’re just as right as him and take it as proof of a witch-hunt. What shall we wager?

“I had hoped and expected my business colleague would have had the strength to continue the battle to prove our innocence,” he wrote. “For reasons yet to surface he chose to do otherwise.”

Ars Technica’s header image for their article on Manafort:

Simple keyboard command like Ctrl C and Ctrl V (cut and paste), Enter (for OK, proceed, continue), Spacebar to move around a popup menu, Tab for switching windows, Ctrl P to print.

See, Rick Gates obviously made the mistake of figuring out how to fix Manafort’s wifi or something, so now he’s the one Manafort calls for any sort of technical problem. That’s how you become an accomplice to bank fraud.

Couldn’t they have just Barron to do the cyber for them?

Clippy was convicted of racketeering and securities fraud in 1998 and is currently serving a 25-year sentence at a federal prison in Duluth. He has been repeatedly denied parole.

didnt realize how many pricing tiers there were for Acrobat Pro

Nice try Gates, but you’ve already been caught.

It’s weird to see the pendulum swing - sometimes it seems like their wanton incompetence and greed will kill us; sometimes it seems like their wanton incompetence and greed will sink them.

When it comes to criminal acts at this level of the government, the punishment should be just shy of terminal. No cushy white-collar prison. No wrist-slap sentences. We’re talking life-altering, permanent punitive actions. No reprieve. You’d be better off finding citizenship in some other country (if you can manage…

I saw this in my Twitter feed last night, and I couldn’t stop laughing for a good five, maybe ten, minutes. A fucking PDF to Word conversion.

After some of the recent MCU films, I’ve still been feeling discouraged about female representation. Like Ant-Man, which had one women to like six men; or Dr. Strange, where Rachel McAdams was a non-entity and we only got Tilda Swinton because they gender-swapped the character. It sometimes makes me feel like the…

On one hand, if T’Chaka’s communicator in 1992 was basically a stand-alone 2D hologram projector, there’s no way that 25 years later the average Wakandan is using something akin to a late-model iPhone. They’re operating *at least* at T’Chaka’s 1992 tech level, which is substantially above what we’ve seen from the…

You can burn bushes, get slaves out of Egypt, dispense commandments. A lot of cool stuff.

Yea in the articl.... ah, cutbacks strike again.