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The Washington Post reports:
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort “repeatedly and brazenly violated the law” and shows a “hardened adherence to committing crimes,” prosecutors told a Washington federal judge. They recommended no specific punishment for those crimes, saying that is the practice of the special counsel.
Prosecutors noted that federal guidelines call for a sentence of 17 to 22 years, although under Manafort’s guilty plea in his D.C. case, the statutory maximum he faces is 10. The special counsel said that they may ask for Judge Amy Berman Jackson to impose a sentence that runs consecutive to whatever punishment Manafort is given for related crimes in Virginia federal court.
Friday’s sealed filing, an unredacted version of which was published Saturday, helps pave the way for his sentencings in D.C. and Virginia scheduled for next month, as Robert S. Mueller III begins wrapping up his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Sentencing memo: “Manafort chose repeatedly and knowingly to violate the law— whether the laws proscribed garden-variety crimes … or more esoteric laws that he nevertheless was intimately familiar with … His criminal actions were bold.” https://t.co/8JTomqy7F6
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 23, 2019
Prosecutors say Manafort lied to:
-tax preparers
-bookkeepers
-banks
-Treasury Department
-National Security Division of DOJ
-FBI
-Special Counsel’s Office
-grand jury
-his own legal counsel
-Members of Congress
-executive branch of US government— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) February 23, 2019
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is a ‘hardened’ and ‘bold’ criminal, Mueller team tells judge in sentencing memo https://t.co/wuoEoQjdiG
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 23, 2019