By Spencer S. Hsu Spencer S. Hsu Investigative reporter Email Bio Follow March 9 at 6:26 PM The next federal judge to sentence former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has already been thrust onto the national stage during the year-long run of special counsel cases.
“She is smart, fair, always prepared, and tough,” said Reid Weingarten, who represented former Democratic congressman Jesse L. Jackson Jr. , whom she sentenced to 30 months in prison in August 2013 for spending $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items. Weingarten praised the judge’s restraint in his and other cases and for “bending over backwards” to maintain order without being harsh.
Jackson, a 2011 Obama appointee, also has found that Manafort breached his plea deal by lying to prosecutors, including about contacts with a Russian aide, freeing prosecutors from their promise to consider recommending leniency in exchange for substantial help.
Jackson also showed that patience early in Manafort’s case before his plea, allowing a bail dispute to drag on for months while he was under house detention on unsecured bond. She also gave him a second chance after prosecutors complained that he violated a gag order by ghostwriting an op-ed in a Ukrainian newspaper.
Jackson became a protege of Trout, who keeps a photograph of her 2011 investiture as judge on his wall, and whose current clients include former Trump communications director Hope Hicks and former congressman turned lobbyist Vin Weber . “It’s not every day that a lawyer gets his motion granted by the president of the United States,” Trout said at the time — later confessing he was fed the line by Jackson.
Jackson also ruled against the Obama administration in some politically charged cases, finding that it had to turn over to House Republicans documents about the Justice Department’s botched, ‘Fast and Furious’ gun-tracking operation; and make public records of whether the IRS improperly targeted conservative groups.
The liberal tool judge.
Hillary's judge, masquerading as a forthright magistrate
the judge has to go by the law if not then Manafort lawyers can get the case dismissed. Podesta brothers belong in prison for being illegal foreign agents in Russia and Ukraine.
Hopefully justice this time!
Let's hope this judge isn't on Trump's payroll like the last corrupt judge.
hsu_spencer Yea, for five minutes until he gets his pardon from his long-time buddy, 45.
We are waiting for Paul to get at least 15 years...
Lock him uuuuup!
He's going to get pardoned, so none of it matters.
she didnt lock up roger stone for his contempt of court behaviors so i expect her to give manafort a light sentence too...if not, trump will pardon him anyways after 2020....all a big friggin joke....
Meh
Hope Amy doesn’t let us down!!
Everybody wants Manafort to pay for his crime! Not the one he was found guilty of though, helping Trump win the 2016 election.
Nobody cares...
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