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Tear Him All The Way Down

by David Kurtz
07.31.18 | 4:42 pm

To have have any chance of acquittal, Paul Manafort is going to have to shred the credibility of Rick Gates, his former protege and the key prosecution witness against him, and his defense team lost no time in doing so in today’s opening statement to the jury.

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