A federal judge in Washington, D.C., sentenced Paul Manafort to 73 months in prison on Wednesday following his conviction on charges of unregistered foreign lobbying and witness tampering. Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced the former Trump campaign manager to 60 months on the first count, running concurrently
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., sentenced Paul Manafort to 73 months in prison on Wednesday following his conviction on charges of unregistered foreign lobbying and witness tampering.
As he left the courthouse, Manafort attorney Kevin Downing told ABC News that he was"disappointed" in the sentence. He called Judge Jackson"hostile towards Mr. Manafort," with a level of"callousness" he said he hasn't seen in his many years of white-collar prosecution.Manafort entered the courtroom Wednesday morning in a wheelchair, wearing a black suit, white shirt and purple tie.
"Please let my wife and I be together. Please don't take away any longer than the 47 months," Manafort said Wednesday, referring to the 47-month sentence he received in the Virginia case. She reminded both legal teams that this case was not about Russia or about special counsel Robert Mueller and his prosecutors.
Earlier, Jackson began the hearing by emphasizing the counts Manafort was being sentenced for in the D.C. case and underscored that he was not being sentenced for the crimes he was convicted of in Virginia, which carried steeper sentencing penalties. "Mr. Manafort has come forward, he's accepted responsibility by pleading guilty," Manafort's attorney Thomas Zehnle told the judge.
Manafort's financial charges relate to criminal activities that occurred between 2006 and 2015, though the witness tampering charge relates to contacts he made in 2017 after he was indicted.
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