Paul Manafort faces another sentencing — in front of a tougher judge
1 / 3 -- Paul Manafort won leniency Thursday from a federal judge who sent him to prison for less than four years, but next week he’ll be sentenced in a second case by a less forgiving judge who could add another 10 years to his term.
Gene Rossi, a former federal prosecutor, said Ellis may have assumed that Jackson will impose “significant additional time.”“That was in part why he went relatively easy on Paul Manafort,” Rossi said. “Being sentenced to four years in prison is nothing to sneeze at if he’s going to get additional time in D.C. At the end of the day, he’ll serve about seven years in prison.”
The sentence set off outrage among the president’s critics, who said it was too lenient for a man who failed to pay many millions in taxes. But in court, Ellis said it was sufficiently punitive. Manafort said that nine months of solitary confinement after seven months of home arrest had affected his physical and mental health.
Manafort may face more legal trouble even after next week’s sentencing. State prosecutors in New York are said to be preparing a separate set of charges, which could expose Manafort to even more prison time. After his jury conviction in Alexandria, Manafort avoided a trial in Washington by pleading guilty and agreeing to cooperate with Mueller. But prosecutors said he repeatedly lied to them in debriefings while failing to come clean about his contacts with Konstantin Kilimnik, a longtime associate allegedly tied to Russian intelligence.At the hearing on Thursday, prosecutor Greg Andres said Manafort lied during debriefings over 50 hours.
Mueller also investigated whether Manafort sought a presidential pardon from Trump -- a possibility that still exists.
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