Manafort Caught Sentence Break But Soon Faces Tougher Judge
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, according to Bloomberg.
He faced as much as 24 years in prison for hiding $55 million offshore accounts, failing to pay $6 million in taxes, and defrauding banks.
But in a few days Manafort will be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington, where he pleaded guilty to two conspiracy charges and pledged to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, report Bloomberg’s David Voreacos and Andrew M. Harris.
Jackson already has been strict with Manafort, sending him to jail after he was accused of tampering with witnesses. Jackson has the option of ordering any new sentence to be served consecutively or concurrently.
