robert mueller s russia probe everything from a witch-hunt to a democrat-led hoax to a disgrace but next week he may be able to give it a new name over. cnn has learned that new attorney general bill barr bar after the special counsel was appoint appointed. instead, that only made things much worse. as of today, seven former members of trump s inner circle from his business empire to his campaign to his white house have pleaded guilty in this massive investigati investigation, including michael cohen, his fixer. michael flynn, his former national security adviser set to beb sentenced next month. paul manafort, his former campaign chairman, mueller is recommending he get up to 24 1/2 years in prison for financial
michael cohen fix er, michael flynn, his national security adviser set to be sentenced next month, and paul manafort his former campaign chairman, mueller is recommending he get up to 24 1/2 years in prison for financial crimes. so in all 37 people and entities including dozens from russia have been charged. for his part, the president said this moments ago about the report s potential release. reporter: mr. president, should the mueller report be released while you re abroad next week? that will be up to the new attorney general, he s a tremendous man, a tremendous person who really respect this is country and respects the justice department so that will be totally up to him. cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez is all over this in washington. evan what do you know? the end is near or the end of this phase, that is, we expect that the attorney general bill barr is going to announce in the
because it was manafort and his defense team who elected to not combine the two sets of felony charges against him into one single case in one jurisdiction before one judge. so manafort is now facing sentencing in two different jurisdictions by two different federal judges on two different sets of crimes, and, yes, he does face the prospect that the sentences in each of those jurisdictions might run consecutively, might run one after the other rather than concurrently, both at the same time. so we know as of friday night what prosecutors have advised the judge in the virginia case, 19 1/2 to 24 1/2 years in prison. that came out on friday. by the end of this week we will see what the prosecutors are advising the other judge in his other case. then it will be up to those two judges in each of those two jurisdictions to decide paul manafort s fate. the second judge, the one in d.c., who will get prosecutor
24 1/2 year prison sentence for paul manafort. plus, fines and restitution that ranged from millions of dollars to tens of millions of dollars. now, keep in mind though that sentencing recommendation friday night was just for the one judge, just for the one judge who is hearing the paul manafort case in virginia. that is not the only federal case against paul manafort. by the end of this week we are expecting robert mueller and his prosecutors to also make their case for the sentence that they believe manafort should get from the other federal judge who is hearing the other federal criminal case against paul manafort in the neighboring jurisdiction of washington, d.c. that fairly dire circumstance, the fact that 69 1/2-year-old paul manafort is now looking down the twin barrels of a sentence from the federal judge in virginia and then another sentence from this federal judge in d.c., that obviously is a crisis of his own making.
as the new attorney general william barr today started his first day on the job as head of the justice department, leading the husband of one senior white house staffer to proclaim online that william barr starting as a.g. means, quote, mueller will soon be gone. as william bar took the reins at the justice department for his first day today, this is what prosecutors in robert mueller s office told a federal judge tonight, who is starting the sentencing process for president trump s campaign chairman, paul j. manafort. quote, the united states of america, by and through special counsel robert s. mueller, files this submission to address the sentencing of the defendant paul j. manafort jr. as an initial matter, the government agrees with the guidelines in the presentence report and its calculation of the defendant s total offense level as 38 with a corresponding range of imprisonment with 235 to 293 months. that s 19 1/2 years to 24 1/2 years in prison.