The former campaign chairman for President Trump faces up to 10 years for conspiring to hide millions and tamper with witnesses.
By Spencer S. Hsu Spencer S. Hsu Investigative reporter Email Bio Follow March 13 at 6:00 AM Once a globe-trotting political operative and campaign chairman for President Trump, Paul Manafort returns to federal court Wednesday as a felon awaiting word on how much more prison time he could receive in the hard fall from his power-broker days.
Manafort’s Virginia trial last summer laid bare a lavish lifestyle, bolstered by his foreign lobbying patrons and undercut when his overseas business and clients dried up.The case against Manafort in Washington focused more on his Ukraine work and election-year contacts with a longtime Russian aide. Those contacts went “very much to the heart of what the special counsel’s office is investigating,” prosecutor Andrew Weissman alleged at a February hearing before Jackson.
Manafort misled prosecutors about interactions with Kilimnik, particularly an August 2016 meeting in New York City at the height of the campaign, Jackson found. The second sentencing will mark a milestone in Manafort’s legal saga, which began in October 2017 when he and his longtime employee and campaign deputy Rick Gates became the first defendants publicly charged in Mueller’s probe . Gates later pleaded guilty to conspiracy and lying to the FBI. He agreed to cooperate with the investigation and has yet to be sentenced.
In their memo, prosecutors cast Manafort’s conduct as the work of a veteran political operator who served at the pinnacle of both an American presidential campaign and his own, secretive lobbying operation, yet who was also a serial liar and a “bold . . . hardened” actor who undertook “concerted criminal action” spanning years.
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