The federal judge overseeing Paul Manafort’s sentencing handed down a sentence of just 47 months after the former Trump campaign chair pleaded for leniency from his wheelchair but did not express remorse.
The four-year sentence is well below what prosecutors were seeking – and years below what top prosecutors and litigators had been predicting.
Judge T.S. Ellis, who handed down the sentence, said the former Donald Trump campaign chairman should not get credit for cooperating with authorities – but also said the former lobbyist and power-broker had lived an ‘otherwise blameless life.’
Prosecutors were seeking a sentence of up to 24 years, and under his current sentence Manafort would have to serve less than four.
After the judge left the room once his sentence was pronounced, Manafort – who had pleaded for ‘compassion’ from his wheelchair – stood up and looked toward his wife, Kathleen.
Manafort has already served several months behind bars during trial – time for which he may well receive credit.
However he faces further sentencing in federal court next week in Washington, D.C. before Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who must decide whether his sentences would be served concurrently.
Judge Ellis lauded aspects of Manafort’s character even after a jury convicted him of felony corruption crimes and prosecutors sought to put him away for what could be the rest of his life. He called that sentence, built from sentencing guidelines, ‘excessive.’
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Trump would have pardoned him anyway, this POS is the perfect example of ” if your a commie, nothing will happen to you”. If this was me, I would never see daylight. This chaps my ass to no end.
He’ll be out in two.
With ‘good behavior’.
AND an improved golf swing.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6785653/The-Maryland-Club-Fed-prison-Paul-Manafort-serve-four-year-tax-fraud-sentence.html
Yeah… JUSTICE, right???