those submissionsubmissions. the judge will look at the sentencing guidelines and look at the circumstances of manafort s case and the ultimate sentence for that jurisdiction on march 13th. so both of these things are coming to an end. manafort is coming to an end of the line in both of these jurisdictions where he was charged with federal crimes and the reason there is so much anticipation about this particular sentencing document by tonight s deadline is that for everything we ve been through with manafort thus far, with the charges in d.c. and charges in virginia and him mounting a defense and rick gates being a cooperator and standing firm and saying he wasn t going to plead guilty and cooperate and manafort got convicted of a bunch of felonies and did decide to plead guilty
as far as we know, this sentencing recommendation tonight from the special counsel s office about paul manafort will be kind of the final scene between mueller and manafort. if mueller is ever going to spell out for the public and for the court the full gravity and the full scope of what the president s campaign chairman paul manafort did wrong, this sentencing document in d.c. is likely to be the document in which he does that. so because of that expectation, me and all the prosecution all the producers that work on this show and everybody else in the country who covers this story, we ve been like kittens with their claws out hanging from a tree limb all day long waiting for this thing to come out. now the deadline is technically today. that definitely doesn t mean close of business. i guess it means as long as you can stay up. there is the possibility that the prosecutors will meet the court s deadline but they will submit something that needs to
to completely undercut his own case. all of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a friday night. good evening. day 757 of the trump administration, and just within these past few hours on a friday night, we have seen a number of major developments with regard to the mueller investigatiinves. tonight, the feds have submitted a sentencing document for trump s former campaign chair paul manafort, who will soon, we say this because it s germaine, turn 70 years of age. this would apply only to the case he s facing in virginia where he was found guilty of tax and bank fraud. this sentence would mean he would be in federal prison until the end of his productive life. the sentencing guideline here is a prison term from 19 to 24 years. manafort faces a restitution payment of over $24 million and they suggest manafort forfeit
more than $4 million. the sentencing document is 120 pages long and has copious amounts of information. if manafort receives a sentence in the recommended range, it would be the harshest handed down thus far in the russia investigation. then, there s his own case in federal court in d.c. and another prison sentence awaiting. the judge in that case ruled he lied to investigators. a violation of his cooperation deal with the feds. there s also news about paul manafort s one time business partner roger stone. today, mueller s team filed a document in stone s case, rejecting his request for a different judge, and there, in the document, the felts say for the first time, they have evidence of roger stone communicating with wikileaks, as well as guccifer 2.0. that was the alias used by
all of it as the 11th hour gets under way on a friday night. good evening. day 757 of the trump administration and just within these past few hours on a friday night, we have seen a number of major developments with regard to the mueller investigation. tonight, the feds have submitted a sentencing document for trump s former campaign chair paul manafort, who will soon, we say this because it s germane, turn 70 years of age. this would apply only to the case he s facing in virginia where he was found guilty of tax and bank fraud. this sentence would mean he would be in federal prison until the end of his productive life. the sentencing guideline here is a prison term from 19 to 24 years. manafort faces a restitution payment of over $24 million and they suggest manafort forfeit