Former Trump aide Paul Manafort was sentenced on federal charges, then was hit almost immediately with fresh state charges in New York that could put him outside the president's power to pardon
Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort arrives for arraignment on a third superseding indictment against him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on charges of witness tampering, at US District Court in Washington, June 15, 2018.
"It is hard to overstate the number of lies and the amount of fraud and the extraordinary amount of money involved" in the crimes, Jackson told Manafort, 69, who sat stone-faced in a wheelchair he has used because of gout.She added three-and-a-half years on top of the nearly four-year sentence Manafort received last week in a separate case in Virginia, though he'll get credit for nine months already served.
Minutes after Manafort's federal sentence was imposed, New York prosecutors unsealed a 16-count indictment accusing him of giving false information on mortgage loan applications. Still, Manhattan prosecutors, who brought the new indictment, contend their case is safe because mortgage fraud and falsifying business records are state but not federal crimes.
The judge said conspiracy charges concerning Manafort's unregistered foreign lobbying work and witness tampering were "not just some failure to comply with some pesky regulations" as his attorneys argued. "I am sorry for what I have done and all the activities that have gotten us here today," he said in a steady voice. "While I cannot undo the past, I will ensure that the future will be very different."
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