Final Manafort Sentencing; New York indictments swiftly follows
By Mona Austin Web photo. Paul Manafort pictured in the foreground. Adding to the 43 years he received in a Virginia Court a week ago, today ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced to 47 more months in jail in a DC Court. Having served 9 months in solitary confinement already, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson decided the new sentence will run concurrently with the time handed down by Judge T.S. Ellis . He could have spent the rest of his life in jail as initial jail time estimates were up to 25 years. Considered unfairly lenient, some complain that the nearly 7.5 year he got are far less than the lengthy sentences imposed on people who commit blue collar crimes. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, the same judge who sentenced Jesse Jackson, Jr. for misuse of campaign funds, presided over the court proceedings. For Manafort, it was not about colluding with the Russian government as P...