Analysis: Today, Paul Manafort learns his full fate -- and the real cost of his lies
By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow March 13 at 8:02 AM This post has been updated.
Turns out the sentence actually wasn’t all that light, relative to other people convicted of similar crimes. But even if it could have been worse, the real pain could come Wednesday at his second sentencing. And that’s where his lies to prosecutors could really wind up costing him. But while that might have made sense if Manafort had been given a lengthy sentence by the first judge, T.S. Ellis, it might now look less appealing to the second judge, Amy Berman Jackson.
Judges have broad latitude when it comes to sentencing. While Jackson is supposed to sentence Manafort according to the severity of his crimes, her decision on whether the sentences should run concurrently is completely up to her. And it seems possible she might now look at his first sentence and decline to do that — or even, if she does run them concurrently, sentence him to more years than Ellis did.
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