(from [March 8, 2019] https://www.expatica.com/ru/news/trump-ex-campaign-chief-manafort-sentenced-to-47-months-in-prison-2-107328/)
". . . former (Trump) campaign chief Paul Manafort was sentenced to nearly four years in prison by a federal judge . . . for tax crimes and bank fraud . . . Judge T.S. Lewis immediately came under fire from Democratic lawmakers for imposing what they described as a relatively light sentence on the 69-year-old Republican political consultant and lobbyist. . . Prosecutors from the Special Counsel’s office had argued for a stiff prison term for Manafort, the first target of the Mueller probe to be convicted in a criminal trial.
. . Ellis said that while Manafort had committed “very serious crimes,” he had previously led an “otherwise blameless life” and the advisory sentencing guidelines calling for 19 to 24 years behind bars were “excessive” and disproportionate to sentences for similar offenses.
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