Manafort's Second Sentencing And New Charges Filed (UPDATED)

U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson is hearing from prosecutors and defense attorneys for corrupt former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort this morning. She has already said that while she'll take Manafort's guilty plea into account, she'll also take his previous conduct outside of the charges against him, referring to his conviction on bank fraud and other felonies to which he was sentenced last week to a mere 47 months by biased Rethuglican Judge T.S. Ellis.  CNN's updates from inside the courtroom give the arguments by both sides.

UPDATE: Judge Jackson's sentence was surprisingly light, given the potential for Manafort facing 10 years in prison. She sentenced him to an additional 43 months in prison, to be served consecutively with the 47 months from Judge Ellis.  (Judge Jackson's full sentence was 73 months, with 30 months to be served concurrently with last week's, meaning Manafort will serve a total of 7 1/2 years.)  Jackson also slapped down the Manafort team's dishonest statement regarding collusion with the Russian government, as part of their signaling to Russian asset Donald "Rump" Trump for a pardon, saying,

"It's hard to understand why an attorney would write that. 'No collusion' is simply a non-sequitur."

UPDATE II:  These would be charges beyond Trump's power to pardon, if convicted:

Paul Manafort was indicted on state charges just minutes after he was sentenced in federal court.

The former campaign chairman for President Donald Trump was indicted Wednesday by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office on a yearlong residential mortgage fraud scheme. [snip]

“Following an investigation commenced by our Office in March 2017,” he added, “a Manhattan grand jury has charged Mr. Manafort with state criminal violations which strike at the heart of New York’s sovereign interests, including the integrity of our residential mortgage market.”

Let's see if the State of New York and/ or other jurisdictions follow suit and file other charges (e.g., State tax evasion) that would essentially nullify the effects of any pardon Individual 1 might give career con man Manafort.

UPDATE III:  Manafort's lawyer liar Kevin Downing comes straight out of the courthouse and bald- faced lies about what Judge Jackson said about "collusion:"

Just so it's crystal clear, this is all part of the campaign for a presidential pardon. https://t.co/crCEqzycgb

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 13, 2019