3.5 Years?

[lame54]

WTF?

[Polly Hennessey]

1. Crime pays if it is white.

[MagickMuffin]

13. Excuse me color has nothing to do with it but $$$$$$$$$ does

If you got the BIG BUCKS you can get away with anything!

[lunatica]

27. Color has a great deal to do with it

One or two exceptions notwithstanding.

The wealth inequality from the beginning is based on racism.

[Solomon]

36. Keep on telling yourself that.

[SidDithers]

2. 90 months total...

47 from Virginia plus 73 (30 months concurrent) from DC.

Sid

[matt819]

12. So. . .

If 30 months are concurrent with the 47, then he's got 17 more from the first sentence and another 73 months from this one, for a total of 90 months, or 7 years and 6 months.

I know more would have been nice, and maybe even appropriate. And there's probably criminals who've been convicted of identical or at least comparable crimes and sentenced to longer terms. But I have to agree with others who've posted that Manafort is unlike to walk the earth a free man again. Not only is he not particularly healthy, I would hope that states have a go as well.

Next up - Roger Stone.

I'm hoping, of course for the silver grail of junior, eric, and ivanka, the golder grail of kushner, and the holy grail of the man himself. That said, I'm decreasingly confident that this will happen.

[dajoki]

3. I'm disgusted!! n/t

[GWC58]

4. I wouldn't fret.

Paul Manafort will never walk a free man again. How many states also want Manafort. Pretty sure NY is one. Maybe VA?

[dajoki]

7. I really hope you're correct n/y

[old guy]

5. Manafort won both trials.

The "Justice System" no longer exists.

[Instant Liberal]

6. The sentence he got on this one was fair.

I would have gone for more but that would only fuel Trump's narrative. Jackson did what she could. It was the other judge that screwed the pooch.

[dajoki]

9. I disagree n/t

[old guy]

10. You're certainly entitled to your opinion.

[lame54]

11. Why do we have to live in constant fear of these assholes?...

The Libs Were Owned Today

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. More nihilistic defeatist binary all-or-nothing thinking. Please stop. It is destructive. . . . nt

[old guy]

18. You're certainly entitled to your opinion.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. I knew that. What a clever informative response you have made. :eyes:

[blueinredohio]

37. Agreed

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Wrong. And you didn't post context, so even if you weren't wrong, you'd still be wrong. . . . nt

[lame54]

15. Thanks for the context

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. It's your omission. Ball in your court. I can make assumptions but I'm not obligated to post them.

[lame54]

19. Thanks for the kicks...

Including my replys

Together we can float this post all day

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. So, that's your game, run up the post count and your post count.

I'm pretty sure I'm done here, but feel free to try to provoke me per your strategy.

[lame54]

22. No game here...

Just dealing with your rudeness and wrongness

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. Manafort did NOT get 3.5 years. You are just wrong. If you consider it rude to point out errors,

If you consider it rude to point out errors, you can consider me rude.

Note that in all the posts, you have not refuted the fact that you are wrong. Manafort did NOT get 3.5 years. Instead you wish to run up your post count with meaningless fluff posts like "You are certainly entitled to your opinion".

Further, it is common courtesy to provide context in an OP. Please don't accuse rudeness when your screen is so reflective.

[lame54]

24. What did he get...

And i did say you were wrong

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. He got 73 months or 90 months depending which courts you include. Six years or 7.5 years. . . . nt

[lame54]

31. I included one court - today's court...

I was responding to TODAY'S news
Today he got 3.5 years(technically 3 yrs 7 mos)
I'll leave the addition problems to you

[Bernardo de La Paz]

32. Your assertion, which has been refuted with facts by at least four posters. Ball in your court.

Four in this thread alone.

Post a credible link, if you can

It will also partly be a bassackwards way of providing the context you have rudely not provided.

[lame54]

34. I concede...

I was reacting to the initial report

He was actually sentenced to more but some will be served concurrently and some consecutively

It will add 3.5 years to his previous sentence

I thought the judge gave him 3.5 altogether

I got it wrong

I concede

[Bernardo de La Paz]

35. OK. It's tough to assimilate all the details sometimes because the tRump tragedy is so complex. . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

26. Reasserting a falsehood is not an effective way of supporting it & not a refutation of a counter. nt

[Eliot Rosewater]

28. Was the sentence consecutive or concurrent

[Bernardo de La Paz]

29. Both.

Assuming you are talking about Manafort. OP was not courteous enough to provide context.

[TwilightZone]

30. 73 months, part of it concurrent because it overlapped with VA.

"First, Jackson said, the conspiracy count against Manafort in DC overlapped with conduct he’d already been sentenced for in Virginia. Because of that, she said, much of her new sentence for that count — 2 and a half years — had to be served concurrently with the existing Virginia sentence."

https://www.vox.com/2019/3/13/18264011/paul-manafort-mueller-sentence-amy-berman-jackson

[Tommy_Carcetti]

33. I mean, I wasn't expecting the full 10 years, as much as I wanted.

I'm glad at least the majority (that 3.5 years) will be consecutive on the other 4 years as opposed to concurrent. And now he has more headaches to deal with in New York state, so I'll take it.

Will be interested what happens tomorrow with Roger Stone.