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Final Manafort Sentencing; New York indictments swiftly follows

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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...

LiLo gets a light sentence

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buzzz worthy. . . Actress Lindsay Lohan is the luckiest woman in Hollywood.  She has been to court on various charges over 20 times and couldn’t tell you what it is like to have an extended stay on lock down.   “LiLo” dodged prolonged jail time once again Monday (March 18) when she appeared in a Los Angeles court. The 26-year-old star pled  no contest to reckless driving and lying to cops in relation to a 2012 car accident in the City of Angels.  For the misdemeanor charges she faced the judge sentenced Lohan to a mere  5 days of jail time, 90 days of lock down rehab (which only exists on Dr. Drew as far as we know),  30 days of community service and 18 months of psychotherapy. She will be allowed to complete the community service in New York, where she and her family reside  and is expected to serve the brief prison stint after a May 2 hearing.  At the hearing she must show proof of enrollment into rehab, a community service ...