"Otherwise blameless life" - Atlantic writer Franklin Foer begs to differ and makes a list:

[Leghorn21]

The phrase "Otherwise Blameless Life" has me
hopping mad. I've made a list of the ways this
is not the case.

Link to tweet

”He has lived an otherwise blameless life,” said Judge T.S. Ellis, as he sentenced Paul Manafort to just 47 months in prison on Thursday.

In an otherwise blameless life, Paul Manafort lobbied on behalf of the tobacco industry and wrangled millions in tax breaks for corporations.

In an otherwise blameless life, he helped the Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos bolster his image in Washington after he assassinated his primary political opponent.

In an otherwise blameless life, he worked to keep arms flowing to the Angolan generalissimo Jonas Savimbi, a monstrous leader bankrolled by the apartheid government in South Africa. While Manafort helped portray his client as an anti-communist “freedom fighter,” Savimbi’s army planted millions of landmines in peasant fields, resulting in 15,000 amputees.

More:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/paul-manaforts-otherwise-blamess-life-crime/584419/

[2naSalit]

1. K&R

[BSdetect]

2. The sentence should be voided or appealed as it is clearly inadequate

[yonder]

3. K & effin R

[zaj]

4. That last sentence...

By the time he was caught, his extraordinary avarice had become so commonplace, that not even a federal judge could blame him for it.

[BigmanPigman]

5. Worth reading it all!

[Poiuyt]

6. K&R

[SergeStorms]

7. The always clueless judge...

obviously didn't do any homework on Manafort's life of sleaze and dishonesty. Various people have said Ellis is soft on white collar crime. I'd love to see a list of his sentences handed down to everyday Joes and Jills and people of color for crimes nowhere as serious as Manafort's. I pretty sure I know what the findings would be, I just want to see it in print. This feeble-minded judge needs to be stripped of his judgeship.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. wonder how many like ellis have been installed by mitch and kkkgop

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Even the RW Washington Examiner pointed out he worked for dictators

Beginning in the '80s, Manafort took controversial clients, including Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Congolese dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, and the ruthless anti-communist Angolan warlord Jonas Savimbi.

[allgood33]

10. Is there some judicial governing body that can impeach Judge Ellis?

[AmericanActivist]

11. Nothing blameless about Manafort's life of crime nm

[Hassler]

12. Ellis' research: Manafart is a career GOP hack and bagman for world dictators

And he supports Chump. That's all Ellis needed to know.

[smirkymonkey]

13. This whole thing makes me sick to my stomach.

Our justice system is completely broken.