Manafort has been imprisoned for about 9 months. What happened to him?
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March 7th, 2019
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In news footage from early last summer, he looked very healthy in appearance and in his walk. Today he appeared in court for sentencing in a wheelchair with a cane. Is he now that sick or is it a ruse to make the judge feel sorry for him and be lienient in his sentencing?
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He suffers “significant” health issues, related to his confinement.
According to his legal team.
Scared of long term incarceration, causes weak knees and need for a wheelchair.
Waiting for a doctor to declare what his team claims.
Mobsters and dictators often show up in a wheelchair when they’re brought to justice. I assume it’s partly because they’re old, partly as a scheme for sympathy, and partly making themselves sick by feeling sorry for themselves.
March 7, 2019 – The Guardian – Paul Manafort has been sentenced to 47 months in prison
Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman was found guilty of eight felony crimes last August, including filing false tax returns and bank fraud…
…He is due to be sentenced in a second case in Washington DC, next week, after pleading guilty to illegal lobbying. The two charges in that case carry a minimum of five years in prison each, although Judge Amy Berman Jackson could rule that that sentence runs concurrent to the Virginia prison-term…
He is claiming he is suffering from gout.
I’m guessing prison must be serving a lot of steak and shrimp.
I imagine the Mueller team grilled and threatened him over pretty good—they were trying to get him to say a bunch of stuff about Russia Collusion and the Trump campaign. He was supposed to be sentenced for 17–20 years. Fortunately the judge could see through this and sentenced him to four years. He will probably be out in two.
He DID commit the tax evasion crimes and deserved four—and will be sentenced again for other crimes he actually DID do. His next sentencing will be in one month.
If he composed about Trump and Russia collusion he would have gotten about three years from Mueller.
I’m not sympathetic. He can get Trump to wheel him into jail.
Manafort hasn’t been in prison. He’s been held at the Alexandria, VA jail, which is a couple of miles from my home. The U.S. government pays rent to the city when it needs to have someone held in a federal case, at any time between arrest and sentencing.
His condition is reminiscent of Bill Cosby’s barely mobile entry into court, but then walking out without assistance.
Perhaps his $15,000 ostrich skin coat set off an allergy.
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