Paul Manafort a 'hardened' and 'bold' criminal, Mueller prosecutors tell judge

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Paul Manafort a ‘hardened’ and ‘bold’ criminal, Mueller prosecutors tell judge

By Rachel Weiner February 23 at 3:18 PM

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is a “hardened” criminal who “repeatedly and brazenly violated the law,” prosecutors told a Washington federal judge.

But in the filing submitted Friday and made partially public Saturday they recommended no specific punishment for those crimes, saying that is the practice of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, whose office brought the case.

Prosecutors noted that federal guidelines call for a sentence of 17 to 22 years, although under Manafort’s guilty plea in his D.C. case, the maximum he faces behind bars is 10. The special counsel team said it may ask for Judge Amy Berman Jackson to impose a sentence that runs after any prison time Manafort is given for related crimes in Virginia federal court.

“Manafort chose repeatedly and knowingly to violate the law,” prosecutors said, from “garden-variety crimes such as tax fraud, money laundering, obstruction of justice, and bank fraud” to “more esoteric laws” involving foreign lobbying.

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[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. In the end, Paul Manafort will rot in prison and his family left destitute.....

Which will be a shame because Justice is not blind when it comes to matters like this. The family will pay dearly for Manafort's sins.

[Achilleaze]

2. Why do republicans intimately embrace so many criminals & traitors?

Deplorable.