Thursday, March 7, 2019

BREAKING: Manafort Handed Light Sentence By Republican Judge


Former Trump campaign manager and life- long sleazeball Paul Manafort was sentenced this evening to less than 4 years (47 months) in prison for tax and bank fraud.  Republican U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis (appointed by Ronald Reagan) chose to sentence Manafort to a much shorter stretch than he could have received under federal sentencing guidelines (up to 24 years), offering some peculiarly clueless testimonials to Manafort's character (saying he'd "lived an otherwise blameless life").  What amoral rock has Ellis been living under?

Manafort still faces a second sentencing hearing on March 13 in the District of Columbia in front of Judge Amy Berman Jackson on two conspiracy charges; he faces up to 10 years on those counts.  Judge Jackson will decide whether Manafort will serve that time consecutively or concurrently with the 47 months the Reagan judge just handed down.  Let's hope Jackson does the right thing and throws the book at Manafort, something the Reagan judge opted not to do.

BONUS:  Reactions --







Maybe we should have seen this coming --


BONUS II:  Here's a primer on the "otherwise blameless life" led by Manafort.