Ya Think?

March 07, 2019 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

Paul Manafort got 47 months because he has an otherwise blameless life.  Yeah, other than selling out the United States to make money for himself, he’s a real saint.

Ya think the federal judge will stack ten years on that next week?

Lord, I hope so.

 

 

 

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  1. His tax fraud alone merits twice that. This Judge threw out the jury’s verdict on most counts by trick of sentencing. Let’s hope the State of New York takes a dimmer view of tax cheats and has a pliable statute of limitations for fraud.

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  2. Old Quaker says:

    Ellis, I think, is the same judge that gave the prosecution a bad time during the trial. What?!

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  3. Correct me if I am wrong but I understand that pre trail/ sentenceing detension.
    So this means that all the time manaford has been held will be substracted from this joke of a sentence.
    Starting to look more and more that mueller is going the same route of the frist investigation of the valerie plume exposure.
    A few wrist slaps and sweep it all under the rug.

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  4. Past time for Ellis to retire or be disbarred!

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  5. megasoid says:

    The bankers, stock traders, politicians and various elites are chuckling over cigars and cocktails. The status quo has been maintained and all is right with the world of the privileged.

    Laura Coates ✔ @thelauracoates
    FYI in 2018, #JudgeEllis sentenced Frederick Turner, 37, to a mandatory minimum of 40 years in prison for dealing methamphetamine: “I chafe a bit at that, but I follow the law. If I thought it was blatantly immoral, I’d have to resign. It’s wrong, but not immoral.” #PaulManafort

    Ari Berman✔@AriBerman
    A shorter sentence than black woman in Texas who got 5 years for voting while on supervised release

    https://www.alternet.org/2019/03/47-months-is-a-joke-legal-experts-are-stunned-after-federal-judge-goes-easy-on-paul-manafort/

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  6. And that black Texas lady who voted illegally because she didn’t know that she couldn’t as a convicted felon got a longer sentence. He will be out before she is.

    Unless NY tacks a few more years on his sentence.

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  7. Buttermilk Sky says:

    Timothy McVeigh led an otherwise blameless life before he blew up the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City and killed 168 people. He was even a decorated veteran.

    This is why other countries don’t elect judges.

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  8. RepubAnon says:

    I suppose it’s possible that the judge was worried about Trump pardoning Manafort if a 20+ prison term was handed down – but my guess is the affirmative defense of “affluenza.”

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  9. slipstream says:

    Color me disappointed.

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  10. Wealthy white male privilege.

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  11. Someone is auditioning for a SCOTus spot.

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  12. Checked and yes manafort gets the time he spent in custody against his sentence.
    So 9 months in custody subtracted from 47 means at most he spends 38 months not including any credit he gets for “good behavior”.

    People in Ferguson spent more time in jail over parking tickets where they couldn’t afford fine + court costs+ penalties etc.
    But I forget they were poor people of color.
    The standards are different for rich “connected” white crooks.

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  13. I sure hope someone in Moscow is mixing polonium cocktails for these failed minions.

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  14. twocrows says:

    Throughout this charade, Manafort has comported himself as a man who fully expects a pardon — so, whatever the Fed judge does almost certainly will not matter.

    Are there any more state investigations brewing here? That’s the only chance for any real justice to prevail in his case.

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  15. Meanwhile, Aaron Schock, he of the Downton Abby office renovation who ripped off the IRS and his own campaign for more than $110,000 is getting off with repayment. Schock said of the decision to allow him to have NO RECORD, and no jail time “I do feel wronged by this process.”

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  16. Old Fart says:

    Mo money. Less time…

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  17. Lucky this judge wasn’t in charge of Al capone tax trial.
    First he would have attacked the prosecution of political motivation. The Feds were investigating capone for murder, bootlegging etc, etc, but they only brought tax charges at the end because they didn’t prove the cases they started with so it is a bit unfair for the prosecution to bring in tax charge as an attempt to create “leverage” over the, otherwise, “blameless” Mr. Capone.
    I dare say it would go downhill from there.

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  18. Charles R Phillips says:

    No time off for good behaviour in the Federal system.

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  19. Linda Phipps says:

    Anyone want to put money on Manafort miraculously setting aside his wheel chair the nanosecond his sentence is over?

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  20. Grandma Ada says:

    We citizens have been sentenced to 48 months of Trump (I hope that’s all) yet Manafort only got 47 months. . .

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  21. People who grow “weed” for their own personal use would get at least 10 years. There’s a woman with a sixth grade education who didn’t know she had illegally voted. She got five years. They didn’t have money and influence to lead blameless lives.

    Yet, Manafort lived an “otherwise blameless life” said by the sentencing judge who one can wonder if he was getting money under the table for such a light sentence. Manafort BLAMELESS?? This m.f. worked for foreign dictators. His life was selling American influence. He stole millions of dollars from the people of the United States.

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  22. Jane & PKM says:

    That sentence ‘aligns’ so far with the light rebuke Michael Flynn received for his treason. Whistleblower Chelsea Manning received 35 years, served 7 before the sentence was commuted. Go figure. Serve the country and get slammed; serve yourself and get rewarded.

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  23. Bob Boland says:

    Buttermilk Sky – Federal judges are not elected, they are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. This particular specimen was appointed by “Raygun”. And at age 78, with over 30 years on the bench, he’s long overdue to be put out to pasture.

    The good news is that a> Manafort still has to be sentenced in the DC cases and b> remember, he was tried on 18 counts of which he was found guilty on only 8, the other 10 was “hung”. The prosecutors at the time decided to not retry those 10 counts but I believe they can change their minds now that Manafort got a slap on the wrist sentence for the first 8. With a new judge, one not enamored of his power like Ellis, Paulie might well find himself in even deeper trouble.

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