Paul Manafort gets 47 months in tax- and bank-fraud case as judge calls government’s sentencing range ‘excessive’
By Rachel Weiner , Rachel Weiner Local reporter covering federal court in Alexandria, Va. and local court in Arlington and Alexandria.
Ellis noted that he must consider the entirety of Manafort’s life when issuing a sentence, noting Manafort has been “a good friend” and a “generous person” but that “can’t erase the criminal activity.” Manafort’s tax crimes, the judge said, were “a theft of money from everyone who pays taxes.” “The last two years have been the most difficult years for my family and I,” Manafort told the judge. “To say that I feel humiliated and ashamed would be a gross understatement.”Speaking from his chair, Manafort did not apologize for his crimes, but thanked the judge for how he had conducted the trial.
The hearing came just days before Manafort is set to be sentenced for related conspiracy charges in a case in D.C. federal court. But the judge also rejected Manafort’s attorneys claims that the lack of any such evidence undermined the case, saying he had considered that issue at the beginning of the case. “I concluded that it was legitimate” for the special counsel to charge Manafort with financial crimes, Ellis said.
Manafort faces another reckoning next week in the case in D.C., in which he could be handed a prison term of up to 10 years. As for why Manafort hasn’t offered financial information, Westling said, “I can only say that is a very difficult process given his incarceration.” “The Special Counsel’s attempt to vilify Mr. Manafort as a lifelong and irredeemable felon is beyond the pale and grossly overstates the facts before this Court,” his lawyers wrote.They said it was Manafort’s Ukrainian backers who chose to pay through opaque bank accounts in Cyprus. And Manafort maintains that those millions were not for a “pro-Putin politician” but to “distance Ukraine from Putin.
It was after Yanukovych’s fall that Manafort admits he found himself suddenly short on cash; he began lying to banks to secure loans his finances were too shaky to merit. All this happened, his lawyers say, not because he broke the law but because he worked for Trump and was caught up in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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