Blind Justice For Some

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Paul John Manafort Jr. is an American lobbyist, political consultant, and convicted felon. The Republican joined Donald Trump's presidential campaign team in March 2016 and was promoted to campaign chairman from June to August 2016.

Paul Manafort’s slap on the wrist is a good example of American injustice in action While in school I may have spent more time in detention and inside the principals' office than he will now serve in his prison sentence.

Why did the judge throw a prosecutor's guidelines out the window? Some say he was against presiding over this trial from the very beginning and made it clear he was going to conduct the trial the way he saw fit, even reprimanding prosecutors in front of the jury numerous times. He said, he is Caesar in his Rome, and he was going to do it his own way,

Next week Manafort will be sentenced in another case in Washington, where a different jurist will decide whether he can serve both sentences at the same time or if he will have to serve them consecutively.

‪Some intel experts think Manafort is essentially a Russian asset https://www.msnbc.com/11th-hour/watch/dilanian-some-intel-experts-think…

Paul Manafort bets on a pardon gets an unusually light sentence. A federal judge in Virginia has sentenced former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to 47 months in prison for tax and bank fraud, with credit for time served https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/paul-manafort-senten…

Manafort is Trump's former campaign chair who was sentenced yesterday to 47 months in prison for financial fraud convictions obtained by special counsel Robert Mueller. https://cnn.it/2EIVK2s

Richard Blumenthal calls Paul Manafort's sentence a "miscarriage of justice," says Manafort threatened U.S. Democracy https://trib.al/0b18XJj

His sentence was far less than the 19–24 years recommended by federal guidelines https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-paul-manafort-russia-investi…

Manafort offered no remorse during a statement he read in court before he was sentenced https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/us/politics/paul-manafort-sentencing…

He will be sentenced next week in Washington, D.C., for other crimes https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paul-manafort-sentencing-trump-russia-mu…

How the sentence stacks up with sentences in other local fraud cases https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/07/paul-manafort-p…

Manafort’s lucky day. “Mind-boggling” leniency for a guy with a long, shady past https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/03/08/legal-community-lash…

He gets a sweetheart deal, and there is still so much more we don’t know about what he did at the helm of the Trump campaign https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/what-does-mueller-wan…

“As a former prosecutor, I’m embarrassed” about the light sentence he received from Judge T.S. Ellis https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/manafort-s-light-sentenc…

A slap on the wrist even after he was caught lying to prosecutors https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/08/manafort-just-escape…

‪Ex-FBI agent warns Trump could pardon Paul Manafort next week — triggering an epic legal struggle https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/ex-fbi-agent-warns-trump-could-pardon-…