69-year-o 59-year-old manafort could spend the res of his life in jail. ken, how much time do prosecutors think that manufacture should spend his jail and what are had his lawyers saying in response to that? that was a terrific summary of the case. he will not oppose a sentence of 19.5 to 29 years, that s what guidelines call for. the judge doesn t have to adhere to those guidelines, but that s what they say. manafort s lawyers say that would be disproportionate. mueller s team says that he was committing crimes for ten years. they call him a remorseless
calculated an advisory sentencing range of roughly 19.5 to 24 years. this range is clearly disproportionate to the conduct for which mr. manafort was convicted. the defense submits that a sentence substantially below the range calculated by probation is warranted. and that s how it starts. thereafter we get 40 or so more pages of how what paul manafort did is really no big deal. and we get lots and lots of letters of support from his relatives about what a good guy he is. on page 11 of this new filing tonight, we literally get a reference to paul manafort being an altar boy. there s the inevitable mention of his humble beginnings. there is that odd clanging assertion that paul manafort, quote, has spent his life advancing american ideals and principles. that was in the other sentencing memo, his defense filed in the
income tax returns, one count of failing to file a foreign bank account report, and two counts of bank fraud and mr. manafort acknowledges he received aand a victim and submits it to aid the court in determining an appropriate sentence. the u.s. probation office under sentencinga sentence range of 19.5 to 24 years. this range is clearly disproporti disproportidispoor dispo disproportionate. we get 40 or so more page what is paul manafort did is really no big deal and lots and lots of letters of support from his
how much time do you think manafort might end up serving? i mean, you know, beyond any question of a pardon, just in terms of sentencing? it s very likely he could spend the rest of his life in jail. in prison. the reason for that, he s 69 years old. he turned 70 in april. look, the prosecutors, as a lot of people have described with respect to remember, he has two cases. he refused to waive the venue requirement that the government is supposed to meet. so he had a case in virginia and a case in the district of columbia. with respect to the other case we talked about a couple of weeks ago, the sentencing guidelines, as determined by the probation department with respect to his report that happens in every case when anybody is facing sentencing in the federal system, said that the guidelines range is 19.5 to 24.5 years. that s on the one case. on this other case that we re talking about tonight, he can face additional time. now, according to the cooperation agreement that they had o
respect to remember, he has two cases. he refused to waive the venue requirement that the government is supposed to meet. so he had a case in virginia and a case in the district of columbia. with respect to the other case we talked about a couple of weeks ago, the sentencing guidelines, as determined by the probation department with respect to his report that happens in every case when anybody is facing sentencing in the federal system, said that the guidelines range is 19.5 to 24.5 years. that s on the one case. on this other case that we re talking about tonight, he can face additional time. now, according to the cooperation agreement that they had originally entered into, the parties agreed, the defendant and the special counsel s office agreed, that some of that conduct was overlapping. with respect to the conduct overlapping like the tax evasion and those sorts of things that the sentence in the one case should be concurrent with the