Manafort Lawyers Ask Judge for Leniency

“Lawyers for Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, pleaded on Monday for a federal judge to spare their 69-year-old client from a sentence that would essentially send him to prison for the rest of his life,” Politico reports.

“In a 47-page filing, Manafort’s attorneys described a client who has been ‘personally, professionally, and financially’ broken by special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation and who deserves a sentence ‘significantly’ below the statutory maximum of 10 years he faces after pleading guilty in Washington to a pair of conspiracy charges.”