Mueller argues Manafort has not accepted responsibility
Source: The Hill
Special counsel Robert Mueller is pushing back on Paul Manafort's claim that he has accepted responsibility for his crimes and deserves a lighter sentence.
"The defendant blames everyone from the Special Counsel's Office to his Ukrainian clients for his own criminal choices," Mueller said in a response Tuesday to the former Trump campaign chairman's sentencing memo.
"Manafort suggests, for example, that but for the appointment of the Special Counsel's Office, he would not have been charged in connection with hiding more than $55 million abroad, failing to pay more than $6 million in taxes, and defrauding three financial institutions of more than $25 million dollars," he continued.
Manafort is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday afternoon in his criminal case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The former Trump campaign chairman was convicted over the summer of eight criminal charges, including five counts of filing false tax returns, two counts of bank fraud and one count of failing to report foreign bank accounts.
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