They also gave 43 of the month: Paul Manafort has now been sentenced to 7,5 years in prison - ForumDaily
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They also gave 43 of the month: Paul Manafort has now been sentenced to 7,5 years in prison

Former head of Donald Trump's campaign headquarters, Paul Manafort, must be held in federal prison for a total of more than seven years after the 13 in March, the court added the sentence to the X-NUMX month, which the political strategist received in another case a week ago.

Paul Manafort. Photo: CBS News screenshot

These two prison terms marks the end of Manafort’s sudden transformation from a well-known political consultant with mansions and luxurious clothing to a prisoner who, in his own words, was “humiliated” by the changing circumstances of his life, writes USA Today.

During the meeting, Manafort told the judge: "Now I want to tell you that I apologize for what I have done."

But US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson did not convince the words. She said that Manafort spent most of his career, deceiving taxpayers to be able to lead an extravagant lifestyle withоmore costumes than a man needs, ”and that he did not repent of his deed, despite his apologies.

"To say I'm sorry I got caught is not a very inspiring plea for leniency," the judge said.

Federal judge in virginia last week sentenced Manafort to 47 months in prison for fraud with banks and taxpayers in the millions of dollars. Then Manafort received less than 4 years in prison instead of threatening 19.

Jackson added to this period more than three years, although the maximum that threatened Manafort in this case is 10 years. The judge also decided that the defendant should spend 3 of the year under the supervision of the federal government after being released from prison, and pay 6 millions of dollars in restitution. The nine months he has already spent in prison will be counted in his term.

The decision from 13 March brings the total prison term of Manafort to 7,5 years.

“It’s hard to overstate the amount of lies, the fraud and the incredible amount of money involved,” Jackson said, criticizing Manafort for hiding his activities from the government and lying to federal investigators after promising to cooperate with them.

Manafort begged Jackson to save him from the possibility of spending the rest of his life in federal prison.

“Please let me and my wife be together,” said Manafort, who turns 3 in less than three weeks.

Manafort pleaded guilty to two felonies in the District of Columbia as part of an almost two-year investigation by special lawyer Robert Muller about Russia's intervention in the 2016 election of the year. Jackson had to decide whether Manafort would serve both sentences (for violations in Virginia and DC) at the same time or one after the other.

Andrew Weismann, one of the prosecutors, said that Manafort had lied to government officials for years without disclosing his lobbying work in Ukraine, as required by federal law. For many years, according to Weismann, Manafort hid offshore accounts and falsified tax returns to hide the income he received for his work in Ukraine.

Manafort's lawyer said he was embroiled in a loud and serious investigation into Russia's interference with the elections, even though he was charged with crimes not related to this.

Prosecutors called on Jackson to supplement the substantial verdict with a new conclusion, describing Manafort as a “hard-core” criminal who “repeatedly and blatantly broke the law” for more than ten years and whose crimes continued even after the indictment against him in 2017. The lawyers said that a long prison term would probably mean a life sentence for Manafort, which is excessive because the crimes he committed were not so serious as to force him to spend the rest of his life in prison. But the judge sided with the prosecution.

An analysis of data from the US Sentencing Commission found that Manafort received a type of sentence that is only available to people who cooperated with the investigation. And his sentence of 47 months is shorter than that of many defendants whose cases prosecutors consider comparable.

Manafort's lawyers claimed that he collaborated with the investigation, citing about a dozen of his interrogations by prosecutors with a total duration of more than 50 hours. But prosecutors disputed the statement of cooperation, stating that Manafort did not provide useful information during interrogations and deceived the investigators.

The analysis showed that out of almost 67 000 defendants on similar articles who received sentences in federal courts in the 2017 fiscal year, only 308 people who, according to calculations, were to receive at least 15 years in prison, ended up with less than five years. Most of the defendants were punished at the request of the investigation because they collaborated with the prosecutors.

Manafort, with whom the prosecutors did not cooperate, received an even lower sentence. In fact, of these 308 cases, there was only one case of fraud, in which the sentence was comparable to that of Manafort. An accused from New York participated in it, who was threatened with at least 188 months in prison, but in the end he was sentenced to 30 months.

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