Judge T.S. Ellis sentenced former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to just 47 months in prison for tax and bank fraud on Thursday — far less than the 19 to 24 years recommended by special counsel Robert Mueller. Perhaps more gallingly, Ellis said that the former lobbyist for foreign dictators whose own daughters said he got rich from “blood money” led an “otherwise blameless” life and was involved in “lots of good things.”
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March 8, 2019 1:13 p.m.
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