Manafort gets three-and-a-half more years in prison
Donald Trump’s former campaign chair has also been hit with new charges relating to residential mortgage fraud
Washington — President Donald Trump’s former campaign chair Paul Manafort was sentenced to about three-and-a-half more years in prison and was hit with a fresh set of criminal charges in New York on Wednesday, drawing sympathy from a president who declined to say whether he would issue a pardon. Manafort, 69, is due to spend six years and nine months behind bars when the sentence issued by US district judge Amy Berman Jackson for crimes related to secret lobbying and witness tampering is combined with another sentence issued by a different judge in Virginia last Thursday. Manafort, who has already served nine months in prison, has received the longest jail sentence yet in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election. During the sentencing hearing, Jackson lectured Manafort over his lies and criminal behaviour after he made a plea for leniency. Just minutes after Jackson read her sente...
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