Paul Manafort went from being a robust political operative who spending hundreds on fits and even an ostrich coat to sitting in a wheelchair in a inexperienced jail jumpsuit asking Alexandria, Virginia District Courtroom Choose T.S. Ellis III for compassion in sentencing him after he was convicted on expenses of economic fraud introduced by Particular Counsel Robert Mueller’s workplace.
Choose Ellis in the end sentenced Manafort to 47 months in jail and was given credit score for 9 months already served, which means he may very well be launched in about three years. The sentence alarmed many former prosecutors and authorized consultants, who stated the sentence was too lenient. Others felt the sentence was applicable, noting that the 69-year-old Manafort was a primary time offender stated those that argue the sentence was too lenient ought to spend a day in a federal penitentiary earlier than suggesting that 4 years in jail was too mild a sentence.
From a authorized perspective, what did you consider Paul Manafort’s sentence because it pertained to the circumstances of the case and the crimes of which he was convicted? Do you suppose it would issue into the choose’s determination when he’s sentenced in Washington, D.C.? In the present day on AirTalk, visitor host Libby Denkmann talks with Columbia Legislation white-collar crime knowledgeable and former American Bar Affiliation Federal Sentencing Reporter John Espresso to assist parse the authorized points at play.
With visitor host Libby Denkmann
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John Coffee, professor of regulation at Columbia College the place he makes a speciality of company regulation, securities fraud and white collar crime
