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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Evolve Dammit
(16,694 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)crimes like these. There are more criminals to come. There are the future criminals who will not do these crimes because they dont want to do the time.
Give him the maximum penalty.
The only thing these criminals like about this country is how easy it is to fuck it over.
I never paid attention to politics until the 2000 election. Went to bed with a Gore win, woke up to a completely different outcome. My life changed immediately.
Whats more maddening is on shows like Washington Journal or Hartmann, I have listened to the callers discuss what NEEDS to happen in America. None of it happens! All talk, no bite.
How do we change this?
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,938 posts)durablend
(7,455 posts)iluvtennis
(19,825 posts)sentence.
Lock. Him. Up.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,164 posts)He truly cares about and respects the responsibility of what he is in charge of
Maxheader
(4,370 posts)Regardless of how they respond to the houses request for documents...They know
they are in the cross hairs