Mueller files redacted Paul Manafort sentencing memo

[Tactical Peek]

Source: CBS News

Special counsel Robert Mueller has filed a redacted memo on sentencing recommendations for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

Friday had been the deadline for the filing, although that process appears to have been slowed by the redaction process. The sentencing memo comes as the 69-year-old Manafort, who led Donald Trump's 2016 campaign for several months, is already facing the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison in a separate case.



Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paul-manafort-sentencing-memo-allowed-to-be-filed-under-seal-live-updates/

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MSNBC said it is over 800 pages, so maybe that includes annexes etc

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Annexes? Maybe you mean indexes?

And why would a memo on sentencing recommendations be redacted? I'm having a lot of trouble understanding that.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Attachments A, B, C, D, E, F, G. Redacted because investigation ONGOING, not complete. . . . nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. Appendices?

[OnDoutside]

3. There's nothing new in this document ?

[RandySF]

4. That means he's not done

[FailureToCommunicate]

5. That's a LOT of redactions. Must be ongoing stuff or, too juicy for us mere mortals.

[Eugene]

7. Paul Manafort a 'hardened' and 'bold' criminal, Mueller prosecutors tell judge

Source: Washington Post

Paul Manafort a ‘hardened’ and ‘bold’ criminal, Mueller prosecutors tell judge

By Rachel Weiner February 23 at 3:18 PM

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is a “hardened” criminal who “repeatedly and brazenly violated the law,” prosecutors told a Washington federal judge.

But in the filing submitted Friday and made partially public Saturday they recommended no specific punishment for those crimes, saying that is the practice of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, whose office brought the case.

Prosecutors noted that federal guidelines call for a sentence of 17 to 22 years, although under Manafort’s guilty plea in his D.C. case, the maximum he faces behind bars is 10. The special counsel team said it may ask for Judge Amy Berman Jackson to impose a sentence that runs after any prison time Manafort is given for related crimes in Virginia federal court.

“Manafort chose repeatedly and knowingly to violate the law,” prosecutors said, from “garden-variety crimes such as tax fraud, money laundering, obstruction of justice, and bank fraud” to “more esoteric laws” involving foreign lobbying.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/paul-manafort-a-hardened-and-bold-criminal-mueller-prosecutors-tell-judge/2019/02/23/690bd33c-3542-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html