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Circumstance, the fact that 69.5-year-old paul manafort is now looking down the twin barrels of a sentence from this federal judge in virginia and then another sentence from this federal judge in d.c. that honestly is a crisis of his own making because it was man o manafort and his defense team that elected to not combine the two sets of felony charges against him into one single case in one jurisdiction before one judge. so manafort is now facing sentencing in two different jurisdictions by two different federal judges on two different sets of crimes and yes, he does face the prospect that th...

Lean jen lenient for manafort and argued for lots of aggravating factors that should cause the judge to be harsher and advised the judge on friday night in manafort's case in virginia they would not object to a 19.5-year to 24.5-year prison sentence for paul manafort. plus fines and restitution that ranged from millions of dollars to tens of millions of dollars. now keep in mind, though, that sentencing recommendation friday night was just for the one judge. just for the one judge whose hearing the paul fan fomanafort in virginia. that's not the on case against manafort. this week we expect th...

Convicted by a virginia jury last year for bank and tax fraud and other crimes related to money he wered from ukraineian politicians. for more about it, here's evan perez. >> reporter: paul manafort could spend the rest of his life in prison if a judge follows sentencing guidelines endorsed by special counsel robert mueller's prosecutors the guidelines call for 19.5 and 24.5 in virginia. a jury convicted the former trump campaign chairman guilty of financial crimes, including tax and bank fraud. he is turning 70-years-old this year. the prosecutors say he shouldn't get a break balls of his iag...

Was connected to russian intelligence and that was what he went out of his way to lie about and she points out, these were not lapses of memory or failures to recollect. he created fathers and mothers narcot -- false narratives. he was certainly very deliberate in lying about that. there is still mystery there for us but those redacted bars may reveal the rest of the story. >> and barb, when you see the prosecutors ask for 19.5 to 24.5 years in virginia, the judge ruled he lied, that judge is yet to start the sentencing pre ing. that won't happen until next month. in the virginia case, he shou...

Proos c prosecutors recommend the chairman spend between 19.5 years and 24.5 years in prison. again, just for the felonies for which he was convicted in virginia. separate and apart from what he's going to get in d.c. for a man about to turn 70, that means prosecutors are recommending what is in effect a natural life sentence for paul manafort. you will recall that there is no parole in the federal prison system. so 19 to 24 years. we're going to get to that manafort situation in a little more detail in a second. but the sentencing recommendation from prosecutors not only spells out what they'...