Manafort Sentenced to 47 Months

“Paul Manafort, who once served as President Trump’s campaign chairman, was sentenced to nearly four years in prison Thursday for cheating on his taxes and bank fraud — a spectacular fall for a once high-flying political consultant who told the judge he is now ‘humiliated and ashamed,'” the Washington Post reports.

“Manafort had faced up to 24 years in prison under federal sentencing guidelines, but U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis called that calculation ‘excessive’ and sentenced him instead to 47 months.”