million. restitution in the amount of $24.8 million. and forfeit. and tax fraud, bank fraud and failing to file a bank account report and manafort was a direct beneficiary of each offense and while some of these offenses are commonly prosecuted, there was nothing ordinary about the millions of dollars involved in the defendant s crime, the duration of the criminal conduct or sophistication of his schemes. footnote one, footnote one reads quote, manafort was being investigated prior to the may 2017 appointment of the special counsel by prosecutors in this district, meaning in the eastern district of virginia and by prosecutors in the criminal division of the department of justice. oh, they were already pursuing manafort before mueller was ever
quote. i didn t need to do this. that s not the right thing to say to convey the idea that you really did have to do this because this is supposedly an emergency forcing your hand. almost immediately after he said i didn t need to do this, the president then went onto the rest of his presidential day, which cuwas getting on plane an flying to florida to, i think, go play golf for the whole weekend, which is fine. nothing against golf but again, not on message when you re supposed to be proclaiming a stop, drop and roll everybody freak out crisis moment for the country. if it s an emergency, is it okay that you re going to go golfing for the rest of the day? shouldn t you be handling the emergency or is the emergency actually something like you said you didn t need to proclaim? suffice to say there is a near national consensus that the emergency the president proclaimed today does not exist in reality. protesters outside of the one of
these russian military intelligence officers that have been charged with mueller by interfering in the election, some of the defendants according to prosecutors quote interacted concerning stolen materials posted online. they explain how they ended up with evidence against roger stone when they seized material on the case. quote, as alleged on the gru indictment, in 2016 they stole documents from the dnc, the democratic party, congressional campaign committee and from the clinton campaign chair. those defendants then released many of the stolen documents including through a website maintained by wikileaks. in the course of investigating that activity, the government obtained an executed dozens of search warrants on various accounts used to facilitate stolen documents for release and discuss the timing and promotion of their release. several of those search warrants were executed on accounts that
concerted criminality. including the conduct to which he pled guilty to the early as 2005 and continuing in an obstruction of justice conspiracy between february and april of 2018. a crime manafort committed while under indictment in two jus dictions and bail convictions, conditions, excuse me. quote, in the end, manafort acted for more than a decade as if he were above the law and deprived the federal government and various financial institutions of millions of dollars. the sentence here should reflect the seriousness of these crimes and serve to both detour manafort and others in engaging in such conduct. oh. no mitigating factors. in addition to there being no mitigating factors, prosecutors tell the judge manafort deserves an enhancement of the sentence because he was effectively the leader of other people in committing this criminal scheme,
formally legally related to this other case that has this case number that you can see here. 18 cr 21cr 215. that case at the mueller indictment of 18 russian intelligence officers. that s one of the core indictments of mueller s investigation is the indictment from last year. in that indictment, mueller charged russian military intelligence officers with quote, conspireing to hack into the computers of u.s. persons and entities involved in the 2016 u.s. presidential election to steal documents from those computers and to stage releases of the stolen documents to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. that s how mueller s prosecutors have nutted up that indictment. that s what those gru officers were charged with. roger stone and his attorneys had objected to the roger stone case being formally legally linked to the gru case. they had complained about it formally to the court.