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Trump Knew Just What He Was Getting With Manafort: A Crook
Judge Ellis credited Manafort with an “otherwise blameless life.”
That couldn’t be more wrong.
- Kenneth F. McCallion
- Daily Beast
The 47-month sentence meted out to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort by Judge T.S. Ellis in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, last Thursday was little more than a slap on the wrist, considering the…
Manafort was facing up to 25 years in prison for having carried out several complex banking fraud schemes that defrauded both banks and the U.S. government as he avoided taxes on millions of dollars in income he…
Federal prosecutors had argued that Manafort deserved between 19 and…