Special Counsel Robert Mueller had harsh words for President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort in a lengthy sentencing memo that was filed on Friday (February 22). The memo asked U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson to make her sentence begin after Manafort's sentence from another federal judge in Virginia for financial fraud is completed. This would likely ensure that the 69-year-old Manafort will spend the rest of his life in jail.
“Manafort committed an array of felonies for over a decade, up through the fall of 2018,” the memo says. “Manafort chose repeatedly and knowingly to violate the law -- whether the laws proscribed garden-variety crimes such as tax fraud, money laundering, obstruction of justice, and bank fraud, or more esoteric laws that he nevertheless was intimately familiar with, such as the Foreign Agents Registration Act.”
Manafort is scheduled to be sentenced on March 8th following his conviction on eight felony counts of banking and tax fraud. A few days later he will be sentenced by Judge Jackson for pleading guilty to conspiracy against the U.S. and conspiracy to commit witness tampering.
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