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To: James Seagrove who wrote (1126138)	3/23/2019 11:03:11 AM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574879

Actually the Mueller investigation MADE A PROFIT from all the seized illegal assets and penalties unlike all the useless witch hunt Republican investigations that COST the taxpayers dearly...

To: James Seagrove who wrote (1126138)	3/23/2019 11:12:06 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 1574879

OOPS! At a reported cost of $25 million, Mueller probe has paid for itself; Paul Manafort effectively has paid for the Russia investigation. JOSH ISRAELDEC 15, 2018, 12:25 PM thinkprogress.org SPECIAL COUNSEL AND FORMER FBI DIRECTOR ROBERT MUELLER, IN 2011. CREDIT: WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY IMAGES A report published by CBS News on Saturday read like one of Donald Trump’s favorite talking points against Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. “Mueller’s Russia probe has cost more than $25 million,” its headline announced. Reports in Politico and Reuters made the same claim. But the stories omitted a key detail: thanks to fines and asset forfeitures, the investigation has netted more than that total. For months, Trump has groused on an almost daily basis that Mueller’s investigation into the Vladimir Putin regime’s efforts to help his 2016 campaign is an expensive “witch hunt.” He has recently claimed, without evidence, that the investigation had cost $30 million (on November 27) and $40 million ( two days later). His Justice Department released documents on Friday showing the actual amount spent to be a little more than $25 million. But even that total does not show the entire picture. As Mueller’s probe has netted multiple guilty pleas and convictions of prominent Trump campaign figures, it has also collected millions of dollars in fines and assets. Most notably, the September plea agreement between Mueller’s team and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort included a forfeiture of somewhere between $42 million and $46 million in cash, insurance policies, and real estate. The real estate alone was worth an estimated $22 million, which will be auctioned off for the United States Treasury. TOP ARTICLES1/5READ MOREFEMA exposed more than 2 million wildfire andhurricane survivors to identify theft and fraud Given that the national debt has seen a increase over more than a trillion dollars under Trump in Fiscal Year 2018 alone, the Mueller investigation is one of the rare parts of his administration operating at a surplus.