ABC news: FBI knocked on Manafort's BEDROOM DOOR

[rainbow4321]

Good MORNING!




http://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/fbi-executed-search-warrant-paul-manaforts-home-russia/story?id=49112676

According to a source familiar with the investigation, Manafort was awoken by a group of armed FBI agents knocking on his bedroom door as they executed the warrant on July 26.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. I don't believe it!

The FBI *knocked*? They didn't kick in the door like the non-white criminals?

[Ms. Toad]

16. Homeland security and INS knocked on a friend's door.

Ultimately they would have kicked in the door, but a roommate was awake.

As for my friend, he awakened to a half-dozen guns in his face.

[Quanta]

2. I wonder if he pissed his PJ's?

[blogslut]

3. Wakey Wakey Eggs & Bakey!

[bettyellen]

5. HA HA - thank you!!!

[Shrike47]

9. Love it!

[malaise]

13. ROFL

I'd pay for pics

[Grassy Knoll]

19. Perfect!!

[Honeycombe8]

37. That's awesome! How did you find that? Did you notice everyone waking is MALE?

I guess they thought it too racey to show a girl waking up? Apparently only boys have to wakey wakey?

[montana_hazeleyes]

47. Love this!

[bettyellen]

4. LOL

[Mme. Defarge]

6. Speaking for myself,

I hate it when that happens.

[dchill]

17. It's one of the reasons for the word "disconcerting."

Or the German "unkomfortablemachen."

My spell check did NOT like that!

[chowder66]

7. Either he didn't hear them in the house or he did and he hid in bedroom. My bet is he hid.

That would be why they knocked.

on edit: Just saw another post saying it may have been a 'no-knock' search warrant. Interesting.

[dchill]

18. I've never heard of a "no-knock" warrant.

Is that a thing?

[dflprincess]

21. It is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-knock_warrant

In the United States, a no-knock warrant is a warrant issued by a judge that allows law enforcement officers to enter a property without immediate prior notification of the residents, such as by knocking or ringing a doorbell. In most cases, law enforcement will identify themselves just before they forcefully enter the property. It is issued under the belief that any evidence they hope to find can be destroyed during the time that police identify themselves and the time they secure the area, or in the event where there is a large perceived threat to officer safety during the execution of the warrant.

However, they are not without controversy, as the Wiki article explains.

[dchill]

23. Thank you. Thank you very much. - (Elvis said it better.)

[dflprincess]

24. I heard his voice as I read that.

[Honeycombe8]

42. And now...DCHILL HAS LEFT THE BUILDING....

[Alice11111]

51. ...

[MrPurple]

30. You see it in movies when they knock in drug dealer's doors

[bettyellen]

26. The guess is someone else opened it and they rushed in- not that it was NOT a no knock....

[rainbow4321]

33. Google shows he lives in a Condo high rise

The FBI may have shown their warrant to security who then led them to his condo and let them in, maybe? I can't imagine those doing the raid gave security time to give a heads up call to Manafort.
Security there probably knew better than to leak the news about a resident.

The Oronoco Amenities

The 5-story building is staffed with a concierge, porter and 24-hour security in the swank two-level lobby.

[Honeycombe8]

44. ABC reported it as his home in Virginia.

Federal authorities recently executed a search warrant at a home in Virginia belonging to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, ABC News has learned. Sources told ABC News the search warrant, issued by the FBI, stems from the ongoing investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-executed-search-warrant-paul-manaforts-home-russia/story?id=49112676

[rainbow4321]

48. I think what's happening is media equates "home" with house

In this case, his "home" is a high rise condo in Alexandria, VA.

This link came across my FB feed a while back...it's a NYC blogger who found out that Manafort owned a home in her neighborhood. She found his name and his Alexandria, VA address in the paperwork, it lists his "apartment number" but if you Google the address it's the VA high rise condo.


http://pardonmeforasking.blogspot.com/2017/02/washington-lobbyist-and-trump-advisor.html


Coincidentally, I caught up with a local resident who was walking in the same direction. After exchanging a few pleasantries, the resident asked:
"Did you know that Paul Manafort owns a house on this block?"

(snip)

Of course I was intrigued. Following the information that I was given, I started looking at public records for the brownstone.
Here are the details:
In late 2012, 377 Union Street was sold to MC Brooklyn Holdings, LLC for $2,995,000.
By 2013, the NYC Department Of Buildings approved an application to turn the four story, two family building into a one family home at an estimated cost of $527,900.00.

The DoB application lists the owner of 377 Union Street as Paul Manafort. The telephone number on record is registered to Paul J Manafort Jr...

[Honeycombe8]

50. +1. (Yeah, I found a ref. to a condo. He also owns some "houses." Very wealthy man.) nt

[bettyellen]

58. Could be his wife, a servant maybe? The guest Maddow had on said "no knock" is very rare and usually

Only if they are afraid the person has weapons or something. But, she also said before 6AM isnpretty rate too. Strange times!

[lindysalsagal]

8. Maybe he thought it was room service.....

for a second and a half.

Wonder what breakfast will be like in prison.....

Lock HIm UP!!!

[procon]

10. At least they knocked. If it had been some poor folks they would have fired

concussion grenades, smoke bombs and teargas through the windows at the same time they drove an armored vehicle through the front door.

[csziggy]

52. According to Roger Stone, they broke down both front and bedroom door!

Heard on a clip on MSNBC tonight - Stone did an interview with some other network.

Personally I think that is Stone's wet dream - to have "jack booted thugs" as he called the FBI agents break into his bedroom. What would follow would NOT be his idea, though.

[Alice11111]

53. !!!

[Billy Jingo]

11. He doesn't have a monitored alarm system?

That sounds unlikely.

[rainbow4321]

22. His place there is a condo

I saw a picture of his Virginia home and thought it looked like a building so I googled about his place and an article referred to his apartment there.

I imagine there must be some kind of security/door man, etc. FBI may have shown their warrant to who ever was in the lobby/at the door, got let into Manafort's apartment that way and then, boom...knocking on the bedroom door.

On edit: it's a condo high rise building.

[Alice11111]

54. I agree. Absolutely, he has a security system. Maybe the

FBI disabled it or some such.

[BannonsLiver]

61. Or the "help" let them in.

[Alice11111]

62. probably.

[L. Coyote]

12. Important missing detail, Manafort testifed the day before.

Was the warrant the result of what he said or did not say?

[Beartracks]

15. Something I read said the FBI got the warrant because...

... they weren't confident that he would turn over everything they needed.

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[moondust]

14. Someone else

may have opened the front door and the FBI agents rushed in "like a fast break," according to Jim Cavanaugh on Lawrence's show who went through the details of the entry process step by step.

Now I'm wondering if Drumpf started contacting Mueller, probably trying to butter him up, after this raid went down.

[dalton99a]

20. "Sorry for the coitus interruptus"

[Renew Deal]

25. I'm surprised that it took 2 weeks to come out

Usually secrets cannot be kept that long

[MrPurple]

31. Wonder why the story leaked out now

[CanonRay]

27. Having worked hundreds of white collar crime investigations

I can tell you it is almost unheard of to get a middle of the night search warrant. That tells me this is probably an espionage case.

[dalton99a]

32. +1

[Barack_America]

35. That's a very interesting take.

What makes you think that? Are middle of the night search warrants seldom requested, or just seldom granted?

[CanonRay]

40. Both.

They are usually for drug cases or violent crime. You have to show special circumstances usually not present in WC cases. I never worked espionage but I believe it would fall into this area.

[moondust]

36. Some TV "experts"

have said the raid may have been at 6 a.m. which would fall within the normal time range rather than extraordinary.

[Honeycombe8]

38. I thought I heard 5:00 a.m. or thereabouts. Which makes sense.

Early enough so that would be more likely he's home & doesn't see them coming.

[CanonRay]

41. I heard midnight.

[zentrum]

29. Give them back

...some of their own storm trooper mentality.

Hope this all works quickly and thoroughly. Clear the swamp!

[BigmanPigman]

34. Why did this take so long to get out!?

[Honeycombe8]

39. We'll have to complain to our leak sources. They're sleepin' on the job! nt

[CanonRay]

43. Because Mueller is running a real investigation

and his people don't leak. It's not Benghazi bullshit.

[orangecrush]

45. Because

[BigmanPigman]

46. At first I thought it was Miller and Bannon until I saw Hitler's (their hero) face on the bucket.

[orangecrush]

49. ...

[Warpy]

55. No knock warrants were one of those anti hippie laws

thinking with the element of surprise as they bashed in the front door, we wouldn't have time to flush our drugs.

I still hate them and want them declared unconstitutional. However, it's good seeing one of them used against a ruling class fascist who undoubtedly approved of them wholeheartedly.

[rainbow4321]

56. If it happened at his condo

I imagine he felt all snug and secure..that the law couldn't get access to him or his stuff.

I'm just guessing here but perhaps the security people at the high rise led the Feds to the condo door and let them in...once inside they woke sleeping beauty up.

[Xolodno]

57. How embarassing would it be if he...

...sleeps in the nude.

or

...was doing the morning "whack off"

[longship]

59. Knock, knock... "Candygram!" nt

[Gothmog]

60. This was a no knock warrant