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Sentence? >> was he involved with collusion with anybody else in russia who wasnt a government official? also, why bring that up? and why is that the most important thing? i think most important, what you saw today, is that the most important thing? not only was manafort not charged with anything have to do with rush ssia in this case, th was the trial judge ellis banned any discussion of russia collusion at all in his courtroom. so nobody could have tried to prove anything like that against man...

Circumstances with guilty plea and botched cooperation deal and shes the judge that revoked his bail in the first place so he had to serve time in jail while he was awaiting trial in the first place. there is a whole different narrative that goes into explaining what judge jackson will decide next week. specifically, though, in terms of how judges make their decisions, is she allowed to take into consideration the length of time that he was sentenced for this week? is she essentially allowed to ...

24 years so significantly and give mr. manafort only a four-year sentence seems extraordinary and i think is very much a response to white collar criminals we too often see in the criminal justice system. our prisons are filled with people serving much longer sentences for small drug offenses. so im disappointed. i dont think it did justice but its only the first part of his sentence. he has another next week and im hopeful that the judge will sentence him appropriately in the next week and send...

Potential other cases against other people, that was also a signal from the special counsels office that there was no way they would be relying on paul manafort as any kind of witness against anyone. once youre telling the judge one way this guy repeatedly lies even to prosecutors who he supposed to be helping, that makes him useless as a potential witness against anyone else in any other case. and youll remember during manaforts trial in virginia, the judge there, the famously judge, he basical...

You know, thanking his family, praising the judge. he must have done that on think three different occasions and sort of apologizing for the trama that his friends and loved ones had experienced. but very little interest beyond that and then the final thing i really took away, rachel, this judge continues to have a deep reservation about muellers operation. he said at one point he snapped, we all know why were here and one prosecutor at one point said the governments position on this is that we ...

Testimony to get evidence and information he can give you to get bigger fish, to go get the president. and he sort of reamed the prosecutors out for that and scolded them, mocked them in the court because he could tell that was their real intent. the prosecutors fundamentally rebutted that. right? they rebutted that outburst from the judge tonight when they came to him at paul manaforts sentencing and said this guy, we cant use him for anything. we cant use him against anyone. we cant use him fo...

I observed the judge to be corky and also to have expressed some hostility about this case, and the special counsel and manaforts connection to president trump. i dont know that those things informed his decision. one of the things you see in cases is judges who impose very lenient sentences against white collared defendants. the sentencing guidelines are based on data they collect from around the country. its based on real cases and the idea behind it is we dont want unwarranted disparities bet...

A different judge who has been through a different proceeding with him. for that sentencing next week. the maximum sentence that d.c. had to hand down would be ten years. but that judge next week has the benefit of knowing what manaforts sentence was tonight. amy berman jackson will not. she will also be decide should run concurrently or be consecutive. she could give him up to ten years. lets say she gives him five. if they are concurrently, hell start both sentences day one and end up serving ...

Didnt make a more remorseful statement or regretful statement or even acknowledge that he was wrong to have broken the law, but then the very next thing the judge said was that thats not going to affect my decision here today. the best explanation he gave about why he was going way below the guidelines was that he felt that they are out of whack compared with the way people are generally sentenced in cases that involve primarily tax evasion and not reporting your foreign bank accounts. he said a...

Manafort tell prosecutors about the president or anybody else, they arent interested in anything he has to say. they think hes a liar. they dont think hes useful. the big dangling thread here with manafort now learning his fate, next time well know if hell spend more time in prison he was sentenced to tonight, manaforts fate becoming clear and his case ending, there is this thread, there are uncharged allegations described in the manafort case about alleged contacts and the provision of secret d...