Trial #1
Paul Manafort was tried in the US Eastern District of Virginia for bank and tax fraud. Reagan appointed Judge JT Ellis, complained that the special prosecutor’s office had lied about its intentions so that they could be free to eventually unseat the President. Manafort was, nevertheless, found guilty. For crimes that could have gotten him 17 years or more in jail, Manafort was sentenced to 47 months with the The judge supported the modest sentence referring to Manafort’s otherwise blameless life.
Trial #1
Pail Manafort was tried in the US District Court for the DC for unregistered foreign lobbying and witness tampering. Obama appointed Judge Amy Berman Jackson said that it did not “fall to her” to pass judgment on Manfort’s life. She referred, however, to Manafort’s dishonesty about his conduct. Sentencing could have been up to 10 years. He was sentence to 73 months in jail some of which was concurrent with his Virginia sentence creating a total almost 7 years of incarceration. Manafort’s lawyer complained that Judge Jackson was hostile and callous toward his client.
Trial #3
Something from the New York Attorney General? If Letitia James has something in mind, she was beaten to the punch. Immediately after the DC sentencing announcement, Cyrus Vance Jr., Manhattan District Attorney, unsealed indictments for fraud under state laws. We don’t know when Manafort will go to trial on these charges. We do know that if he is convicted, unlike the federal court convictions, he cannot be made safe by a Presidential pardon.