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Manafort, look, i wasn't asked to look at russian collusion in this case, so you guys are bringing it up not for me, and this repeated -- what she calls the no collusion mantra from manafort and his defense team, she says it is a non sequitur, but then remarkably she says it's not even clear whether that no collusion mantra is even accurate since the russia collusion investigation is as yet unfinished and no report has been issued. so she is saying i was not asked to look at russia collusion. you keep bringing this up. that is not about this case. and why you saying no collusion? i didn't even...

Which brings his combined sentence so far to about 7 1/2 years. in court today manafort did what he had failed to do last week. he expressed regret for his actions. and we quote. "i want to say to you now that i am sorry for what i've done. i accept the responsibility for the acts that have caused me to be here today. i will be 70 years old in a few weeks. my wife is 66 years old. i am her primary caregiver. please let my wife and i be together." before pronouncing her sentence judge amy berman jackson noted the magnitude of his crimes, his lies to investigators in violation of his plea deal a...

He expressed regret for his actions. and we quote. "i want to say to you now that i am sorry for what i've done. i accept the responsibility for the acts that have caused me to be here today. i will be 70 years old in a few weeks. my wife is 66 years old. i am her primary caregiver. please let my wife and i be together." before pronouncing her sentence judge amy berman jackson noted the magnitude of his crimes, his lies to investigators in violation of his plea deal and his apparent lack of remorse. "saying i'm sorry i got caught is not an inspiring plea for leniency." she also criticized his ...

Persuasive to argue that an investigation hasn't found anything when you lied to the investigators. so that was judge amy berman jackson today. the judge saying explicitly right before she sentenced paul manafort, look, i wasn't asked to look at russian collusion in this case, so you guys are bringing it up not for me, and this repeated -- what she calls the no collusion mantra from manafort and his defense team, she says it is a non sequitur, but then remarkably she says it's not even clear whether that no collusion mantra is even accurate since the russia collusion investigation is as yet un...

The special counsel's investigation, and the sentencing memorandum suggests without foundation that the individuals who received relatively short sentences for lying during the investigation received those sentences because, as the defense put it, courts recognize that these prosecutions bear little to no relation to the special counsel's core mandate of the investigation, allegations that the trump campaign colluded with the russian government to influence the 2016 election. the judge says, quote, it is hard to understand why an attorney would write that. that sentence, like the others, has n...