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Moments ago federal judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to 73 months in prison. This was Manafort’s second sentencing in as many weeks and part of today’s sentence will run concurrently with the 47 month sentence handed down last week by federal judge T.S. Ellis.
The New York Times reports:
Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman who was sentenced last week to nearly four years in prison, was ordered on Wednesday to serve an additional three and a half years for conspiracy, closing out the special counsel’s highest-profile prosecution.
Each charge carried a maximum of five years. But Judge Jackson noted that one count was closely tied to the same bank and tax fraud scheme that a federal judge in Virginia had sentenced Mr. Manafort for last week. Under sentencing guidelines, she said, those punishments should largely overlap, not be piled on top of each other.
BREAKING: Paul Manafort will serve 7.5 years in prison for felonies uncovered as part of Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference.
A federal judge sentenced him to 6 years for illegal foreign lobbying and witness tampering pic.twitter.com/DOrtpQhe04
— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) March 13, 2019
Jackson says she has signed the agreed order of forfeiture for $11 million.
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) March 13, 2019
Prosecutor: “Mr Manafort committed crimes that undermined our political process”
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) March 13, 2019
“After being indicted, while on bail from 2 federal courts in a high profile matter,” Weissmann says, Manafort engaged in criminal conduct that “goes to the heart of the American justice system”
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) March 13, 2019
“My behavior in the future will be very different. I have already begun to change.:”
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) March 13, 2019
Re: witness tampering, Jackson says: “He pled guilty to conspiring to corruptly persuade another person — two people — with the intent to influence their testimony in an official proceeding. And which official proceding? This one. The case against Mr. Manafort himself.”
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) March 13, 2019
Jackson: Why did Manafort do it? To sustain a lifestyle at the “most opulent and extravagant” level, the judge said — many houses for one family, and “more suits than one man can wear”
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) March 13, 2019
Jackson: The back and forth early on about Manafort’s assets and whether he could post enough to be free pending trial appeared to reflect Manafort’s “contempt for and his belief he had the right to manipulate these proceedings” and that court orders and rules didn’t apply to him
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) March 13, 2019
Remorse was “completely absent” from Manafort’s sentencing submissions, the judge said, and she disapprovingly noted the effort to argue that it was only because the special counsel got involved that Manafort faced criminal charges
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) March 13, 2019
The judge slams Manafort and his lawyers for making the “unsubstantiated” claim that Manafort was only charged by Mueller’s office because they couldn’t charge him with anything related to the campaign. “The noncollusion mantra is simply a non sequitor”
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) March 13, 2019
Jackson says 30 months of her sentence must be concurrent with the EDVA sentence, because the tax and reporting crimes were covered in both cases (and in EDVA he got 24 months for the tax crimes and 30 months for the reporting crime, to run concurrent)
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) March 13, 2019
Jackson says the witness tampering count warrants a consecutive sentence, but the full five-year maximum is too much
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) March 13, 2019
BREAKING: Paul Manafort has been sentenced to:
– Count 1: 60 months, with 30 months concurrent with EDVA sentence
– Count 2: 13 months, to run consecutive to count 1 and the EDVA sentence— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) March 13, 2019