Reference: "Mueller's scorecard: Who's been convicted, sentenced"
3/13/19 updates: "Paul Manafort gets (an) additional 43 months in second Mueller sentence...."
"Manafort to serve total of 7.5 years between two cases"
"Manhattan DA announces state fraud charges against Manafort"
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From the sentencing judge, today:
"No collusion" is "simply a non-sequitur."'Update: More context and analysis for the quotation above, provided via this 3/13/19 off-site article: (link) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/13/paul-manaforts-judge-strongly-rebukes-manaforts-trumps-no-collusion-refrain/
An excerpt. Emphasis is added:
"...Manafort’s legal team had suggested repeatedly in its sentencing memo that the fact that he hadn’t been found to have colluded with Russia should be a mitigating factor when it came to how much time he would serve in prison. But Jackson not only rejected that argument in sentencing him to 43 additional months in prison, she also rejected the entire argument behind it.
“The ‘no collusion’ refrain that runs through the entire defense memorandum is unrelated to matters at hand,” she said. “The ‘no collusion’ mantra is simply a non sequitur.”
Then she added: “The ‘no collusion’ mantra is also not accurate, because the investigation is still ongoing.”
Claiming something like there was “no collusion” as a defense is within any defendant’s right. It’s basically saying, “There was no crime.” The problem with Trump and his allies — and Manafort’s legal team, in this case — was that they have tried to stretch it much further. They have argued that the lack of proof of collusion thus far is somehow dispositive. They are suggesting that, because it hasn’t been proved, it never happened..."
(Continuing:)
...."Saying 'I'm sorry I got caught' is not an inspiring plea for leniency."
>>>> Another more in-depth, thought-out analysis of today's sentencing. (Link):
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/paul-manafort-washington-sentence-jackson/584785/
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