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Mueller Tells Judge Manafort Should Spend Up to 24 Years in Jail
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69-year old convicted felon Paul Manafort may spend most the rest of his life, if not the rest of his life, in jail, Robert Mueller told a federal judge Friday evening. The Special Counsel says the former chairman of the Trump presidential campaign should spend 19.5 – 24.5 years in prison. Manafort, born April 1, 1949, would be well into his 90’s when he got out of jail, should he serve that full sentence.
“While Mueller’s team ‘does not take a position as to the specific sentence,’ they indicated they agreed that the sentencing range for Manafort’s crimes would be 235 to 293 months,” HuffPost reports.
Federal prosecutors are also calling for Manafort to pay $28 million in restitution and forfeiture.
“For a decade, Manafort repeatedly violated the law,” the sentencing memo states. “Considering only the crimes charged in this district, they make plain that Manafort chose to engage in a sophisticated scheme to hide millions of dollars from United States authorities. And when his foreign income stream dissipated in 2015, he chose to engage in a series of bank frauds in the United States to maintain his extravagant lifestyle, at the expense of various financial institutions.”
Manafort was convicted of bank fraud, tax fraud and other financial crimes last year.
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