Paul Manafort Pulled Off Plane

[babylonsister]

How did he even make it to the plane if his passport was revoked?

https://politicalwire.com/2022/03/23/paul-manafort-pulled-off-plane/

Paul Manafort Pulled Off Plane
March 23, 2022 at 10:55 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

Former Trump adviser Paul Manafort was removed from a plane at Miami International Airport before it took off for Dubai because he carried a revoked passport, the Independent reports.

[gratuitous]

1. Gee, is presenting a revoke passport a crime of any kind?

Or is this another one of those possible infractions of the law where a prosecutor has to peer into the soul of the perpetrator and determine whether he actually intended, deep in his heart of hearts, to commit a crime?

[FreepFryer]

2. I'm thinking he may have presented one of his other two passports. He apparently had 3 in 2017.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/paul-manafort-3-passports-serious-112301895.html

[TheRealNorth]

3. Wonder who he is meeting in Dubai?

The Russians? Mohammed bonesaw's agents?

The fucker was up to no good, that's for sure.

[tanyev]

6. Yep, Ukraine was one of his top issues when he offered his services as campaign mgr.

It stinketh to high heaven.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

31. Manafort engineered Yanukovych's muddied election in Ukraine in 2014. Didn't last long. nt

[meadowlander]

41. Sale on ostrich-skin jackets?

[Efilroft Sul]

4. FYI, the United Arab Emirates does not have an extradition treaty with the United States.

He was trying to flee the country.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Who cares what this POS does? Don't waste time on this POS. He's already wasted all of

our time as it is.

[WhiteTara]

8. I care what this assh;le does

I'm hoping for his complete prison sentence.

[Tommy Carcetti]

13. I'm actually *very* curious what this POS does.

He's left a lot of chaos, suffering and corruption in his wake and I don't think that should be left unchecked.

[lagomorph777]

15. He is the key to the Putin/Trump/Ukraine plot.

He needs to be interrogated until he can't speak anymore. Then jailed forever.

[obamanut2012]

16. He was flying to Dubai

Obviously to meet with all the Oligarchs who have been flying there the past two weeks.

So, I care, and so should you and any other thinking person.

[Hekate]

50. I care very much. Dang, I wish we had Rachel back! She connected the dots & asked questions...

…about Manafort like no one else!

[obamanut2012]

17. I wondered that, too

Bribe? It's possible, especially at MIA.

[getagrip_already]

35. He had a passport, but it was revoked......

It's possible to have more than one passport, but like drivers licenses, they aren't valid when revoked.

Of course, if it was revoked he would have been notified to surrender all passports in his possession.

So he knowingly did not surrender a passport, and then tried to use it to leave the country.

Probably a fistful of laws broken there.

But you don't actually present your passport to customs to leave. You show it to the airline. It probably takes time to be uploaded and checked.

[getagrip_already]

42. Manafort is one of the few trump pardoned.....

He is not guilty of any federal crimes before his pardon as a result. He hasn't been charged with any since.

So why was his passport revoked? Under what grounds?

Makes you wonder.......

[getagrip_already]

49. You may be a criminal, but until you are charged or found guilty......

You have the same freedoms as everyone else.

There are a limited number of reasons a passport can be revoked, but being called a criminal on the internet isn't one of them.

The irs can have it revoked if you owe them money. A judge can order you to surrender your passport and not leave the country.

The state dept can revoke it if you have been indicted or convicted of a felony. But once pardoned, you are no longer guilty, though the conviction may still stand.

That may be why it was revoked. He had been convicted before his pardon. Or it could be a new indictment we don't know about.

[MineralMan]

9. Lock Him Up. He's a Flight Risk.

[dumbcat]

44. Flight risk from what?

Is he under indictment or some other order not to leave the country? I'm honestly asking, I don't know. Why was his passport revoked? I guess it just bugs me that he was stopped from traveling when I don't know of any reason why he shouldn't be permitted to leave. Yeah, he's a nasty guy, but if not under some form of arrest I would prefer he just leave and not be permitted back.

[MineralMan]

47. It bugs you that his passport has been revoked, because you don't know why?

Why would you know why?

As for why jail him, he will be a material witness in one of the most important cases that has ever been tried in this country.

Essentially what you don't know is irrelevant, it seems to me, just like it would be for me. Revocation of a US passport is serious business. It is not done on anyone's whim.

[txwhitedove]

52. Exactly. I did small search, and tax evasion is a big reason they revoke passport.

In fact, the IRS can revoke a passport. He might have a physical paper passport, but the revocation is posted electronically for all to see. Manafort was convicted of tax fraud. Charges were tax fraud, tax evasion and money laundering. I would presume he's still under investigation for that and other crimes. We should not want him traveling around stirring up more trouble than he already has.

[MineralMan]

51. More Information for You

Once your passport has been revoked, you must go through a process to make it valid again. You can find a description of that process at the link below:

https://www.recordgone.com/articles/criminal-record-passport-revoked.htm

If your State Department appeal of the revocation is not approved, you can still sue in Federal Court to have it reinstated. Apparently, Paul Manafort has either not appealed the revocation and has not taken it to court, if his appeal was denied.

His passport was revoked upon his conviction, or before his trial. The Presidential pardon does not automatically undo that revocation, apparently. Without reinstatement, it remains invalid. So, there's your answer.

I Googled it.

[Varaddem]

11. why haven't they

Brought him in to tell the truth about Russia? He was pardoned. If he lies he stays in prison.

[DURHAM D]

12. Trying to figure out if it was a

private or commercial flight. Anybody?

[sboatcar]

25. It was Emirates, so commercial

[DURHAM D]

28. Thank you

[lindysalsagal]

32. Come on: He's gotta have friends with private planes.

Makes no sense at all. I thought he was still locked up?

[FakeNoose]

39. Chump pardoned him, Manafort has been out since 2020

He's been laying low and he doesn't want to get subpoena'd, I'm sure.

Now that he tried to use a revoked passport, he's got a new charge to worry about, and Chump can't pardon him.

[Takket]

14. How did he get on the plane to begin with?

TSA is supposed to check passports before you go through security

[obamanut2012]

18. $$$

It's Miami.

[lagomorph777]

19. I suspect that passport check set off an alarm at DHS.

They likely revoked it in real time.

[obamanut2012]

20. oooooo i didn't think of that

Yes.

[Takket]

21. Ah. Could be!

[James48]

30. TSA doesn't check passports.

That’s Customs and Border Patrol.

Different agencies, different staff.

[getagrip_already]

36. The airline checks them.....

When you check in. It probably takes a few minutes to get uploaded and cleared.

[onecaliberal]

22. Lock him up. We need him to talk.

[Sogo]

23. Another Trump mobster who thinks he can fly above the law....

Maybe the FBI intercepted the flight list.....I imagine they keep watch on flights to the Middle East....

[lagomorph777]

24. That's what I think.

[Blue Owl]

26. Get that mothafuckin' snake off that mothafuckin' plane

[Maru Kitteh]

29. perfect nt

[Runningdawg]

27. Why did he need to fly commercial?

Surely Trump would have let him use his private plane, or a Saudi prince could have stepped up...

[lindysalsagal]

33. I know, right? maybe he's on a no-fly order from the feds and so no pilots wanted to be jailed

so he tried to sneak onto a commercial flight without the pilot knowing.

[fierywoman]

34. Given his connections and wealth, you would think he would have gotten a passport under

another name.

[getagrip_already]

40. Not a us passport......

That would take serious pull at the state department....

You can't forge a us passport. The rfid chip is encoded with biometric data and can be quickly compared with systems of record. They have to be issued.

Getting a new one under a false name would be really hard. You would need a lot of documentation the gov could verify.

Using someone else's passport who looks like you would also be difficult, though it might work to leave the country.

Getting a fake Russian passport might be easy, but there would be no record of him entering the country which would raise red flags.

I'm sure Russia could figure out a way, but this was a stupid man thinking he would get away with it.

[fierywoman]

53. All in all, it's delightful he was stopped, isn't it ? Thanks for detailed info.

[L. Coyote]

38. Was Manafort's passport revoked BECAUSE he boarded a plane out of the country?

And did that happen because of a sealed indictment?

[pnwmom]

48. Probably because he'd been convicted of a Federal crime. n/t

[beaglelover]

43. How did he even get ON the place with a revoked passport. Our great TSA in action.

[DFW]

46. In the USA you don't need a passport to pass the TSA

You DO need to show one at check-in, and again at the boarding gate. I’m frankly surprised he was issued a boarding pass.

As for Dubai, once he had made it there, Manafort would probably have been welcomed with open arms by Dick Cheney and Halliburton, who moved their HQ there after Cheney left office.

[kentuck]

55. Interesting...

I wonder what his message was that he was carrying??

[Grasswire2]

56. where's the video of this?

I wanna see him get pulled off.