Judge wants sentencing for Manafort before cooperation ends
Source: Associated Press
By CHAD DAY
22 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) The judge in one of Paul Manaforts criminal cases is throwing a wrench into special counsel Robert Muellers plans for the former Trump campaign chairmans cooperation.
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III says in a new order that the terms of Manaforts plea deal cut last month set a timeline that is highly unusual compared with how he handles cases of government cooperators.
Manaforts plea agreement deferred his sentencing until after he concludes his cooperation. It also pushed off the governments decision on whether to retry him on 10 counts on which jurors deadlocked until that time.
But Ellis says he wants to sentence Manafort within the next few months regardless of whether Manafort has finished cooperating.
Ellis has set a hearing for next week on the matter.
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(2,437 posts)He was exposed as a showboating fool and was forced into admitting his foolishness during the trial. I wonder what his true motivation is.