Paul Manafort And the Reach of Double Jeopard

Former President Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort recently received relatively light prison sentences for two federal convictions, far below the federal sentencing guidelines, in two U.S. District Courts—one in the Northern District of Virginia and the other in the District of Columbia—for a litany of bank fraud and tax evasion convictions.  Given that his second sentence was ordered to run concurrent with the first sentence, he is now facing the reality of serving approximately 81 months or 6 ½ years in the custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons, far below what most non-violent drug offenders will serve.   President Trump has dangled the possibility of a pardon (or a commutation of sentence) for Manafort since his arrest in October 2017. It is widely believed that the president’s quasi-promise of a pardon for Manafort has been repeatedly extended to buy Manafort’s silence in a dozen or more criminal investigations…

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