| | | | | View in your browser | | |  | | | | | | Manafort doesn't deserve leniency, Mueller filing argues | Special counsel Robert Mueller says in a new filing that he’s not taking a position on how much time Paul Manafort should spend in prison for charges in Washington, D.C., but told the judge presiding over his case that he doesn’t deserve leniency.
“Nothing about Manafort’s upbringing, schooling, legal education, or family and financial circumstances mitigates his criminality,” Mueller said in a heavily redacted sentencing memo released Saturday, which details Manafort’s crimes.
In the document, originally filed under seal on Friday night, Mueller said that the onetime Trump campaign chairman agreed in his plea deal that anything less than the government’s 17.5 to 22-year estimated sentence is not warranted. | | Read the full story here | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Did a friend forward you this email? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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