Manafort will skip his Sentencing Hearing

[brooklynite]

(In fairness, they have a breaded fish sandwich on the lunch menu)

[guillaumeb]

1. He is growing to love his cell.

No more money to launder.

[wcmagumba]

2. Dirtbag planning on the pardon...nt

[MiniMe]

6. That was my guess

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. This is just the scheduling conference.

The actual sentencing will occur later.

[grantcart]

10. Good catch

[Sanity Claws]

4. Now he doesn't have to try to keep a straight

Face while his attorneys lie at the hearing.

[ffr]

5. He is a cowardly traitor.

Can't even face his inevitability.

[Turbineguy]

7. That's why they have newspapers!

So you can read about it.

[rollin74]

8. he doesn't care about his sentence. he knows he'll be getting a pardon

it's irrelevant to him

[Princess Turandot]

9. C'mon: What's a fasionable guy to do? The color orange just doesn't suit him...

I think he stayed 'home' for the last Virginia court hearing as well. There was a ruling by one of the judges involved that as a convicted/pled felon, he no longer got to wear his own clothes to court.