Hello from the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, where Paul Manafort is due at 3:30 p.m.
Here are links to Zoe Tillman's and other Twitter accounts that will keep up with the Manafort sentencing:
https://twitter.com/Popehat
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Friendly reminder: No live-tweeting during sentencing today, unlike DC cthouse, no closed circuit media room to sit comfortably in and report from afar. Nope, it is hard pews and a mad dash to the elevator, then to the media room and then, to update all you fine people.
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Hello from the federal courthouse in Alexandria, where Paul Manafort is due at 3:30pm for sentencing. See: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/paul-manafort-prison-time-robert-mueller-attack …
Just went inside to check the scene (it's quiet), and the security guard goes, "Hey! Long time no see!" He shakes my hand. "It must be that day."
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As you may recall from Manafort's trial this summer in Virginia, you cannot bring any electronics into the courthouse, so no live-tweeting from today's 3:30pm sentencing. In the meantime:
- What the govt says: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/paul-manafort-mueller-prison-memo-virginia?bfsource=relatedmanual …
- What Manafort says:
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They toil outside the spotlight and their faces and names are rarely known, so they don’t get the credit for their work.
But their work is Just WUNNNNNNNNNNNDERFUL! These folks get the facial expressions and the postures and the gestures and some superb settings. I once thought I might try to be a courtroom artist but I can’t always get the facial depiction right. These folks do it every day.
When I was just starting out as a summer intern in a full-service radio station’s news department, one of the things I got a chance to do was follow the City Hall reporter around on his beat for a week. His name was Lou Morton. He taught me SO MUCH about the craft. He’s the one who gave me the first of three keys to ask yourself when you’re covering or delivering the news: “what happened?” Ask yourself that simple question. Then write your story on that. SO simple and yet so valuable! Helped avoid getting lost down “in the weeds” of a story that didn’t serve when you had only a minute of airtime to cover the story.
One day in that week, John Ehrlichman was in LA to be sentenced for the Daniel Ellsberg break-in. WAY cool! EVERYBODY in local and national news was there. I remember spotting Cassie Mackin of NBC, in a white shirtdress with bare legs and dark brown, wooden soled huaraches. I thought she was so chic and later she distinguished herself as one of four floor reporters at the political conventions - with the likes of then-corespondent John Chancellor, and Dan Rather for the competition. She’d sit there in the open side door of the NBC News van parked outside the Criminal Courts building, writing her story. It was intoxicating!
Anyway, we went inside the courtroom and sat several rows back, and sure enough, I happened to be sitting directly behind John Ehrlichman himself. All I saw was him from behind, and his bald spot. And since I liked doodling in my notebooks, I drew a sketch of the back of him from the shoulders up, and the back of his head with the bald spot. And then of course I briefly thought I had what it took to be a courtroom artist!
But shit - ANYBODY could have drawn that. Man’s head viewed from behind, with very obvious bald spot opening up in the middle of his head, framed by what was left of his short, dark, hair.
WAY cool, though. I’ve been in awe of courtroom artists ever since.
