Sentencing Memo Paints Manafort as Someone Who ‘Repeatedly and Brazenly’ Broke Law – The New York Times

The prosecutors and the defense will both have their final say about Mr. Manafort next month when he is sentenced for a total of 10 felonies stemming from the two separate prosecutions, one in Washington, D.C., and the other in Northern Virginia. Given his age, Mr. Manafort faces the prospect of spending the rest of his life, or something close to it, in prison.

The prosecutors were weighing in Saturday on the sentence that Mr. Manafort will receive from Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the United States District Court in Washington. In that case, Mr. Manafort pleaded guilty to two conspiracy charges in September and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

Judge Jackson ruled this month that Mr. Manafort had breached his plea agreement by lying to prosecutors, including about whether he shared Trump campaign polling data in 2016 with a Russian associate who prosecutors claim has ties to a Russian intelligence service.

The prosecutors said Mr. Manafort’s lies fit a long pattern. He deceived “tax preparers, bookkeepers, banks, the Treasury Department, the Department of Justice national security division, the F.B.I., the special counsel’s office, the grand jury, his own legal counsel, members of Congress and members of the executive branch of the United States government,” the filing said.

They noted that he committed crimes “while under a spotlight” as Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman, after his indictment and after Judge Jackson had released him on bail. Mr. Manafort has been in jail in Northern Virginia since the judge revoked his bail in June, citing the new crimes.