Manafort's Second Sentencing Pushes Prison Total to 7 1/2 Years
- ‘I see more clearly now,’ he says, asking to care for his wife
- Judge says, ‘Sorry I got caught is not an inspiring plea’
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Paul Manafort will serve a total of seven-and-a-half years in prison for felonies uncovered during Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference, as a judge extended his punishment Wednesday and delivered a blistering denunciation of his illegal conduct and habitual lying.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington ordered that Manafort must serve an additional 43 months for illegal lobbying and witness tampering beyond the 47 months he already received last week from a judge in Alexandria, Virginia, for financial crimes.