“If anybody in this courtroom doesn’t think so, go and spend a day in the jail or penitentiary of the federal government,” Ellis said. “Spend a week there.” Let’s hope YOU get the chance.
she is likely to take into account allegations by prosecutors that Manafort tampered with witnesses after he was charged and that he lied to investigators even after he pleaded guilty and pledged to cooperate.
This alone , with nothing else should qualify him for a 10 year stretch,
But I forget , he has led a an otherwise “blameless life”
I expect the judge in this case to put an appropriate sentence together…whatever comes out will be better supported than what happened in the other court. We may not get the huge sentence we think Manafort deserves, it may run concurrently, but whatever she does I expect it to be fair and reasonable. Hopefully she looks at his bad behavior and decides to throw the book at him, I guess we’ll see soon.
Hope I’m smiling later this morning.
9 years with 47 months running concurrently would make me grin. 10 years to run consecutively will be reason for a celebratory drink.
And, here comes Manafort, wheeled in on a stretcher with oxygen tank, unable to speak with his wife dressed in black with a veil. Sympathy please.
C’mon, Judge!!!
We really need a win!
Judge Jackson: “When last we saw each other, I don’t recall you being a Victorian street urchin. When did this change?”
Manafort: “Please, ma’am… may I have no more? Time, that is?”
If he receives a lighter sentence than the guidelines, concurrently of course, a popular faith healer may do a miracle cure on the court house steps. And we’ll all live happily ever after.
Anybody know what time he’s scheduled to be sentenced?
ETA: It’s at 9:30.
HAHAHAHAHA First belly laugh of the morning.
I’m hoping Judge ABJ ignores all the media focus and treats the sentencing as she would any of her cases. As much as I’d like Paulie to rot behind bars, I want her her professionalism and experience more.
Justice or Just Us? It’s a pivotal moment for the whole criminal enterprise supporting Fat Donnie’s administration. If Manafort gets off with another short Club Fed vacation the rest of the mob will clam up and “Relax, the fix is in.” Judge Jackson has a job to do.
Let’s hope the Feds decide to retry Manafort on the ten counts on which that one MAGAT juror caused a mistrial. Those charges, three of failing to register a foreign bank account and seven of bank fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud should be sufficient to ensure the bastard dies in prison.
Assuming they are able to get a judge who doesn’t have a serious white privilege bias.
Not even sure why Ellis bothered with the trial, because his ruling flouted the evidence, the verdict, and the law. His weak sentence was a slap in the face to both the jury and the trial system. He could have saved everyone a lot of time, money, and effort, and just entered his slap on the wrist before trial proceedings even began, because clearly the evidence and the verdict played almost no role in the sentence he imposed. Does anytime think he would have done the same for a less-connected, less-Republican defendant?
Here’s hoping Judge Jackson hammers the traitor this morning and puts Ellis to shame, although I suspect that he, like most Republicans, is incapable of feeling any.
09:30 is just too damn early to start drinking.
I have a lunch date with a friend at noon. It’s at a Cuban place and I’m really going to have to contain myself if he gets the full ten.
Manafort will address the court
Paul Manafort will address the court, his lawyers said.
He will “show he is truly sorry for violating the law” his lawyer Kevin Downing said.
from cnn.com
“If anybody in this courtroom doesn’t think so, go and spend a day in
the jail or penitentiary of the federal government,” Ellis said. “Spend a
week there.”
Yeah where Manafort’s going the golf course is only a 9 hole chip and putt course.