A Mercedes-Benz dealership's financial officer takes the stand

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

Paul Manafort's cars make for the next topic of discussion, as prosecutors brought in a financial officer from a Mercedes-Benz dealership in Virginia.

Daniel Opsut testified that Manafort's family bought and leased expensive cars from the luxury dealership and paid using Manafort's offshore accounts in Cyprus.

Paying from offshore accounts is "not common, but it's not unheard of," Opsut said.

Manafort's wife, Kathleen, bought the car, which had a price tag of about $123,000.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/manafort-trial/index.html

[emulatorloo]

1. Real Estate agent testifies Manafort paid 1.9 million for home with wire transfer from Cyprus bank

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2018/08/01/paul-manafort-trial-day-two/?utm_term=.bbfd8cdbf0b4

“Holland read an email aloud to the jury from Paul Manafort that indicated he would be paying for the $1.9 million home through a wire transfer from Lucicle Consultants, which jurors learned earlier was a Cyprus-based bank account. Holland told the jury that he has never met Manafort’s business partner Rick Gates, and Gates played no role in the transaction. That is important because defense attorneys have sought to cast the blame for Manafort’s alleged misdeeds on Gates.”

[Achilleaze]

2. Did Manafort's deluxe republican Mercedes have ostrich-leather upholstery?

I mean, he would deserve that, wouldn't he, as a republican "conservative" in service to the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. RubleCon . . . nt

[WhiteTara]

4. I wonder if they will charge her with conspiracy?

[Vinca]

5. Wilbur Ross must be tied into all of this somehow given his Bank of Cyprus history.

[DeminPennswoods]

6. It's amazing that Ross has managed to avoid

legal trouble so far given his connections to the Bank of Cyprus as well as his failure to divest business interests.