assault charges for a total of seven counts. to which he pleaded not guilty. again, the jury only found him guilty on those three counts related to the same accuser. for the second accuser and the fourth accuser, the jury could not come to a decision and those were declared a mistrial for the third accuser. the jury found him not guilty of that sexual assault charge. the fourth accuser over the course of the trial was identified as jennifer sibert newsome, a filmmaker and the wife of california governor gavin newsom. the attorney for jennifer siwa newsom released a statement saying in part, what we d prefer those jurors found him guilty on all counts, we understand it was a complex trial. make more difficult by the defense teams arguments that a woman who is assaulted must forgo her chosen career, or be accused of consent after the fact. that attorney also said that you never know how politics may play into things. regarding her marriage to the california governor. the attorney for har
committed would have been in part to support his family. another note here coming now from judge jackson. by acting as an unregistered foreign agent, manafort was contradicting american values. what you were doing was lying to congress and the american public. the judge going on to say that that behavior, quote, infects our policy making. she said that manafort has shown a, quote, deliberate effort to obscure the facts. if the people don t have the facts, democracy can t work. what do you take away from that? yeah, i think she s really making a direct argument against any, of manafort s defense teams arguments that these were minor crimes. they re not something that should be taken seriously. she s saying these are important, these are central. she s right. this is something that s critical to our national security that we know what foreign governments are having influence in our society here.