Paul Manafort's legal team asks for leniency for Manafort in sentencing memo: 'This case is not about murder, drug cartels, organized crime, the Madoff Ponzi scheme or the collapse of Enron.'
Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's former campaign chief, arrives for a hearing at U.S. District Court in Washington on June 15, 2018.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.
"This case is not about murder, drug cartels, organized crime, the Madoff Ponzi scheme or the collapse of Enron," they write in the memo.Instead, they said Manafort, 69, has been ruined by the scrutiny and scope of the investigation, which has resulted in no charges related to"Russian Collusion." Lawyers for Manafort, a former chairman of President Donald Trump's campaign, also repeated their prior claims about a"pre-dawn" raid that woke up Manafort and his wife in the summer of 2017, when agents with guns drawn entered the Manafort home to search not for evidence of Russian collusion but for tax fraud. The special counsel's office has disputed this claim in court filings, saying investigators were operating on a standard post-6 a.m. search warrant.
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