Opinion: Americans have every right to be furious over Manafort’s sentence
Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer March 8 at 9:56 AM Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chief, was sentenced to a mere 47 months for eight white-collar crime convictions. In handing down his sentence, Judge T.S.
Indeed, that reaction was widespread, as legal experts were flummoxed by the slap on the wrist for a sophisticated, greedy and unrepentant criminal. “The sentence is ridiculous, and Ellis’s comments about Manafort’s blameless life are outrageous,” former DOJ spokesman Matthew Miller told me. This is not the end of Manafort’s sentencing. He will be sentenced for a different set of crimes in federal court in the District of Columbia next week. Perhaps there his conduct tampering with a witness after arrest and lying to prosecutors in violation of a cooperation agreement will come into play. Miller notes that “the Mueller team has another card to play. They decided to wait until after this sentence was handed down to recommend whether Manafort’s D.C.
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