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Paul Manafort Sentencing
The hearing is ongoing, the sentence has not been given yet. I think she will hand him a maximum sentence.
Some key remarks by the sentencing judge below:
The hearing is ongoing, the sentence has not been given yet. I think she will hand him a maximum sentence.
Some key remarks by the sentencing judge below:
Ludge to Manafort: Prison is "hard on everyone, young and old, rich or poor"
Judge Amy Berman Jackson is now correcting statements made about Paul Manafort's solitary confinement, which was a significant feature of his allocution today.
She said he was in jail not for violating the gag order, but because he broke the bail by breaking the law after his arrest.
Jackson reminded the court he was first sent to Northern Neck Regional Jail, saying she was concerned about how far that jail was, but then Manafort's team asked for that location. Then he was moved to Alexandria because of their complaints.
She said Manafort "realized the tactic had backfired immediately." He was in a self-contained ("VIP") suite in Northern Neck, Jackson added.
"I'm not going to split hairs over whether the word solitary was accurate because he had a room of his own," Jackson said.
Judge says today's sentencing "will not incriminate anyone"
At the top of her remarks, Judge Amy Berman Jackson was quick to say that today's sentencing "will not incriminate anyone" in the ongoing investigation.
"Any conspiracy, collusion... was not presented in this case," she said. "Therefore it was not resolved by this case."