Manafort's less-than-four-year sentence was far lower than the 19-to-24 years in prison recommended by federal sentencing guidelines.
Paul Manafort's surprisingly light first sentence in his legal battle with special counsel Robert Mueller shocked experts and energized President Donald Trump's supporters.
Manafort was also slapped with a $50,000 fine. That was the bare minimum recommended by federal guidelines, which had suggested a fine of up to $24 million.While Judge T.S. Ellis had been widely expected to hand down a sentence below what the guidelines suggested, few had predicted he would give Manafort such a light prison term.They had blasted Manafort in recent court filings as an unrepentant felon and liar who gave no indication that would avoid committing crimes in the future.
Despite that long-term misconduct, Ellis said before delivering his sentence that Manafort has"lived an otherwise blameless life."While many legal experts were surprised by the leniency in Virginia, they predict that he will be slapped with a harsher sentence next Wednesday, when he appears in Washington, D.C., federal court before Judge Amy Berman Jackson.
That was made clear in June when Jackson ordered Manafort to jail pending trial after Mueller accused him of tampering with potential witnesses in his case. Despite that expectation, Weinstein said Mueller's team"needs to use what happened" during the sentencing phase of the Virginia case"to strengthen their arguments" before Jackson.
Tribe TWEET Manafort's 47-month sentence in ED Va is outrageously lenient. Judge Ellis has inexcusably perverted justice and the guidelines. His pretrial comments were a dead giveaway. The DC sentence next week had better be consecutive. And Ellis' justification for handing Manafort a relatively light sentence immediately sparked a backlash from Tribe and others.Former U.S.
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