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Friday, March 8, 2019
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Trump’s former campaign boss
Manafort sentenced to 47 months
By MATTHEW
BARAKAT and
STEPHEN BRAUN
Associated Press
ALEXANDRIA, Va. —
Former Trump campaign
chairman Paul Manafort
was sentenced on Thursday
to nearly four years in prison
for tax and bank fraud
related to his work advising
Ukrainian politicians, much
less than what was called for
under sentencing guidelines.
Manafort, sitting in a
wheelchair as he deals with
complications from gout,
had no visible reaction as
he heard the 47-month sen-
tence. While that was the
longest sentence to date to
come from special coun-
sel Robert Mueller’s probe,
it could have been much
worse for Manafort. Sen-
tencing guidelines called for
a 20-year-term, effectively
a lifetime sentence for the
69-year-old.
Manafort has been jailed
since June, so he will receive
credit for the nine months he
has already served. He still
faces the possibility of addi-
tional time from his sentenc-
ing in a separate case in the
District of Columbia, where
he pleaded guilty to charges
related to illegal lobbying.
Before Judge T.S. Ellis
III imposed the sentence,
Manafort told him that “say-
ing I feel humiliated and
ashamed would be a gross
understatement.” But he
offered no explicit apology,
something Ellis noted before
issuing his sentence.
Manafort steered Don-
ald Trump’s election efforts
during crucial months of
the 2016 campaign as Rus-
sia sought to meddle in the
election through hacking of
Democratic email accounts.
He was among the first
Trump associates charged
in the Mueller investigation
and has been a high-profile
defendant.
AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File
In this Oct. 11, 2018, file photo, adult film actress Stormy Dan-
iels arrives at the adult entertainment fair “Venus” in Berlin.
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But the charges against
Manafort were unrelated to
his work on the campaign or
the focus of Mueller’s inves-
tigation: whether the Trump
campaign coordinated with
Russians.
A jury last year convicted
Manafort on eight counts,
concluding that he hid from
the IRS millions of dollars
he earned from his work in
Ukraine.
Manafort’s
lawyers
argued that their client had
engaged in what amounted
to a routine tax evasion case,
and cited numerous past sen-
tences in which defendants
had hidden millions from
the IRS and served less than
a year in prison.
Prosecutors
said
Manafort’s conduct was
egregious, but Ellis ulti-
mately agreed more with
defense attorneys. “These
guidelines are quite high,”
Ellis said.
Neither
prosecutors
nor defense attorneys had
requested a particular sen-
tence length in their sen-
tencing memoranda, but
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By BRIAN MELLEY
Associated Press
AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File
In this Nov. 2, 2017, file photo, Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign
chairman, leaves Federal District Court in Washington.
prosecutors had urged a
“significant” sentence.
Outside court, Manafort’s
lawyer, Kevin Downing,
said his client accepted
responsibility for his con-
duct “and there was abso-
lutely no evidence that Mr.
Manafort was involved in
any collusion with the gov-
ernment of Russia.”
Prosecutors left the court-
house without making any
comment.
Though Manafort hasn’t
faced charges related to col-
lusion, he has been seen as
one of the most pivotal fig-
ures in the Mueller inves-
tigation. Prosecutors, for
instance, have scrutinized
his relationship with Kon-
stantin Kilimnik, a business
associate U.S. authorities
say is tied to Russian intelli-
gence, and have described a
furtive meeting the men had
in August 2016 as cutting to
the heart of the investigation.
After pleading guilty in
the D.C. case, Manafort met
with investigators for more
than 50 hours as part of a
requirement to cooperate
with the probe. But prosecu-
tors reiterated at Thursday’s
hearing that they believe
Manafort was evasive and
untruthful in his testimony
to a grand jury.
Manafort was wheeled
into the courtroom about
3:45 p.m. in a green jump-
suit from the Alexandria
jail, where he spent the last
several months in solitary
confinement. The jet black
hair he bore in 2016 when
serving as campaign chair-
man was gone, replaced by a
shaggy gray. He spent much
of the hearing hunched at
the shoulders, bearing what
appeared to be an air of
resignation.
Defense lawyers had
argued that Manafort would
never have been charged if it
were not for Mueller’s probe.
At the outset of the trial,
even Ellis agreed with that
assessment, suggesting that
Manafort was being prose-
cuted only to pressure him to
“sing” against Trump. Pros-
ecutors said the Manafort
investigation
preceded
Mueller’s appointment.
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was irrelevant after Trump
and his former personal
lawyer agreed not to penal-
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nondisclosure agreement
she signed in exchange for
a $130,000 payment.
Attorney
Michael
Cohen admitted in federal
court he arranged the pay-
ment to silence Daniels and
help Trump win the presi-
dency. He pleaded guilty
to campaign violations.
Trump has denied the
alleged 2006 affair.
Daniels, whose real
name is Stephanie Clif-
ford, had wanted a court to
declare the agreement ille-
gal so she could speak out
without fear of financial
penalties if she violated it.
The shell company
Cohen set up to handle
the deal, Essential Con-
sultants, had once sought
to fight Daniels in arbitra-
tion for violating the non-
disclosure agreement by
speaking in public about
the alleged affair. Cohen
had even threatened a $20
million lawsuit against her
before vowing not to.
In seeking to dismiss
the lawsuit, the president
and Cohen effectively gave
Daniels what she was ini-
tially seeking. They vowed
not to seek penalties for
breaking the deal.
Daniels had fought dis-
missal of the case because
she wanted to record sworn
testimony from the two.
Daniels’
attorney,
Michael Avenatti, made
no mention of that broader
goal in declaring victory
on Thursday.
“The court found that
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everything she asked for
by way of the lawsuit —
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