Manafort was already sentenced to 47 months — minus time already served — in his case in Virginia. A judge in DC nearly doubled that time at a sentencing on Wednesday.
Paul Manafort leaves the federal courthouse in Washington, DC, on Feb. 28, 2018.
Manafort's total sentence will account for the nine months he's already spent in pretrial detention. Taking that time served into account, he'll spend approximately 81 months, or 6.75 years, in prison. Jackson said that this case was not an"indictment" or"endorsement" of Mueller's work, and her sentence would not resolve the question of whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government. She said that arguments in the case had been marked by"passion" and"hyperbole.
She did give Manafort credit for cooperating, but said the value of that cooperation was undercut by Manafort's decision to give false information to investigators and a grand jury after he signed his plea deal. "Paul Manafort's upbringing, his education, his means, his opportunities could have led him to ... be a leading example for this country. At each juncture, though, Mr. Manafort chose to take a different path. He engaged in crime again and again, he has not learned a harsh lesson. He served to undermine, not promote, American ideals of honesty, transparency, and playing by the rules," Weissmann said.
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