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Manafort sentenced to 7.5 years, faces fresh charges
By ERIC TUCKER
and CHAD DAY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — For-
mer Trump campaign chair-
man Paul Manafort was sen-
tenced to a total of seven
and a half years in prison on
Wednesday after a federal
judge rejected his appeal
for no additional time and
rebuked him for his crimes
and years of lies.
Within minutes of the
sentencing, prosecutors in
New York brought state
charges against Manafort
— a move that appeared
at least partly designed to
guard against the possibil-
ity that President Donald
Trump could pardon him.
The president can pardon
federal crimes, but not state
offenses.
U.S. District Judge Amy
Berman Jackson sentenced
Manafort to nearly three-
and-a-half years in prison
on charges that he misled
the U.S. government about
his foreign lobbying work
and encouraged witnesses
to lie on his behalf. That
punishment is on top of a
roughly four-year sentence
he received last week in a
separate case in Virginia.
He is expected to get credit
for the nine months of jail
time he’s done already.
The sentencing hearing
was a milestone moment
in special counsel Rob-
ert Mueller’s investigation
into possible coordination
between the Trump cam-
paign and Russia in the
2016 election campaign.
Manafort was among the
first people charged in the
investigation, and though
the allegations did not relate
to his work for Trump, his
foreign entanglements and
business relationship with a
Dana Verkouteren via AP
This courtroom sketch shows Paul Manafort listening to Judge Amy Berman Jackson in the U.S. District Courtroom during his
sentencing hearing in Washington on Wednesday.
man the U.S. says has ties
to Russian intelligence have
made him a pivotal figure in
the probe.
Though the judge made
clear that the case against
Manafort had nothing to do
with Russian election inter-
ference, she also scolded
Manafort’s lawyers for
asserting that their client
was only charged because
prosecutors couldn’t get
him on crimes related to
potential collusion with the
Trump campaign.
“The no-collusion man-
tra is simply a non sequitur,”
she said, suggesting that
those arguments were meant
for an audience outside the
courtroom — presumably
a reference to the president,
who has expressed sympa-
thy for Manafort and not
ruled out a pardon.
Jackson also harshly crit-
icized Manafort for years
of deception that extended
even into her own court-
room and the grand jury.
She said much of the infor-
mation he provided to pros-
ecutors after pleading guilty
couldn’t be used because of
his history of deceit.
“It is hard to overstate
the number of lies and the
amount of fraud and the
extraordinary amount of
money involved” in the fed-
eral conspiracy charges
related to his foreign lob-
bying work and witness
tampering.
Reading from a three-
page statement, Manafort
asked for mercy and said
the criminal charges against
him have “taken every-
thing from me already.” He
pleaded with the judge not
to impose any additional
time beyond the sentence he
had received last week in a
separate case in Virginia.
“I am sorry for what I
have done and all the activi-
ties that have gotten us here
today,” Manafort said in a
steady voice. “While I can-
not undo the past, I will
ensure that the future will
be very different.”
The 69-year-old, who
arrived in court in a wheel-
chair, said he was the pri-
mary caregiver of his wife
and wanted the chance for
them to resume their life
together.
“She needs me and I need
her. I ask you to think of this
and our need for each other
as you deliberate,” Manafort
said. “This case has taken
everything from me already
— my properties, my cash,
my life insurance, my trust
accounts for my children
and my grandchildren, and
more.”
His plea for leniency fol-
lowed prosecutor Andrew
Weissmann’s scathing char-
acterization of crimes that
the government said spanned
more than a decade and con-
tinued even while Manafort
was awaiting trial. The pros-
ecutor said Manafort took
steps to conceal his for-
eign lobbying work, laun-
dered millions of dollars to
fund a lavish lifestyle and
then, while on house arrest,
coached other witnesses to
lie on his behalf.
“I believe that is not
reflective of someone who
has learned a harsh les-
son. It is not a reflection of
remorse,” Weissmann said.
“It is evidence that some-
thing is wrong with sort of
a moral compass, that some-
one in that position would
choose to make that decision
at that moment.”
Defense lawyer Kevin
Downing
suggested
Manafort was being unduly
punished because of the
“media frenzy” generated
by the appointment of a spe-
cial counsel.
“That results in a very
harsh process for the defen-
dant,” Downing said.
After
the
hearing,
Downing criticized Jack-
son’s sentencing as “cal-
lous”, “hostile” and “totally
unnecessary” as he was
shouted down by protesters.
“I think the judge
showed that she is incred-
ibly hostile toward Mr.
Manafort and exhibited a
level of callousness that
I’ve not seen in a white-col-
lar case in over 15 years of
prosecutions,”
Downing
told reporters, noting that
he was “disappointed” by
the sentence.
Wednesday’s sentencing
comes in a week of activity
for the investigation. Muel-
ler’s prosecutors on Tues-
day night updated a judge
on the status of coopera-
tion provided by one defen-
dant, former national secu-
rity adviser Michael Flynn,
and are expected to do the
same later in the week for
another.
Mueller’s investigation
has shown signs of coming
to a close and he is expected
to soon deliver a report to
the Justice Department.
School rampage in Brazil leaves 9 dead, many wounded
By MAURICIO
SAVARESE AND ANNA
JEAN KAISER
Associated Press
SUZANO, Brazil —
Two masked men armed
with guns, knives, axes and
crossbows descended on a
school in southern Brazil on
Wednesday, killing five stu-
dents and two adults before
taking their own lives,
authorities said.
The men, identified
as former students at the
school in a suburb of Sao
Paulo, also shot and killed
the owner of a used car busi-
ness nearby before launch-
ing the attack on the school,
authorities said.
Besides the five students,
the dead included a teacher
and a school administra-
tor, said Joao Camilo Pires
de Campos, the state’s pub-
lic secretary. Nine others
were wounded in the school
attack and hospitalized, he
said.
“This is the saddest day
of my life,” de Campos said,
speaking to reporters out-
side the school in the Sao
Paulo suburb of Suzano.
Authorities
identified
the attackers as Guilherme
Taucci Monteiro, 17, and
Henrique de Castro, 25.
“The big question is:
What was the motivation of
Futura Press via AP/Mauricio Sumiya
Police officers guard the entrance of the Raul Brasil State
School in Suzano, Brazil, on Wednesday.
these former students?” de
Castro said.
Monteiro’s mother, Tati-
ana Taucci, offered a pos-
sible answer, telling Band
News while hiding her face
from the camera that her
son had been bullied at the
school.
“Bullying, they call it. ...
He stopped going to school
... because of this,” she said.
She said she was sur-
prised by his involvement
and found out about the
attack from the television
like everyone else.
Minutes
before
the
attack, Monteiro had posted
26 photos on his Facebook
page, included several with
guns and one that showed
him giving the middle fin-
ger as he looked into the
camera.
In some of the photos,
he wore a black scarf with a
white imprint of a skull and
cross bones. No text accom-
panied the posts.
By Wednesday after-
noon, Facebook had taken
down Monteiro’s page.
During the attack, Mon-
teiro opened fire with a .38
caliber handgun and de
Castro used a crossbow, de
Campos said, adding that
forensics would determine
how each of the victims
died.
The attackers were also
carrying Molotov cock-
tails, knives and small axes,
authorities said
“In 34 years as a police-
man, it’s the first time I
see someone use a cross-
bow like that,” police Col.
Marcelo Salles said. “It is
horrendous.”
The assailants were try-
ing to force their way inside
a room at the back of the
school where many students
were hiding when police
arrived. Instead of facing
police, they turned their
weapons on themselves,
authorities said without
elaborating.
Students gathered out-
side the school recounted
harrowing attacks and see-
ing several bodies lying in
pools of blood.
Kelly Milene Guerra
Cardoso, 16, said she and
other students took refuge
in the school’s cafeteria,
locked the door and lay on
the floor.
“We stayed there until
the door was opened. We
thought it was the shooters
coming to get us, but it was
the police,” she said. “They
told us to start running.”
Horacio Pereira Nunes, a
retiree whose house is next
to the school, said he heard
shots around 10 a.m.
“Then a lot of kids started
running out, all screaming,”
he said. “It didn’t take long
until police arrived.”
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