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Manafort Judge Calls Sentencing Recommendation ‘Excessive,’ Hands Down 47 Month Sentence

The judge said Manafort had “lived an otherwise blameless life.”

Judge TS Ellis said he believes the recommended sentence of 19 to 24 years for Paul Manafort would be “excessive” and hit the former Trump campaign chairman with a nearly 4-year sentence instead on Thursday. The judge gave Manafort a sentence of 47 months after noting that Manafort had “lived an otherwise blameless life,” and was a good friend and generous person to others. But Ellis added that those attributes did not erase his crimes. Manafort will receive a second sentence next week from a different federal judge for the two crimes he pleaded guilty to last year: witness tampering and conspiracy related to his Ukraine lobbying work and money laundering.

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