30 additional months. then on count two, which was unique to this trial, it didn t overlap at all with virginia because it went to his witness tampering, the government said he basically was trying to get some people not to fess up to their lobbying in the u.s. on behalf of ukraine at his direction, he gets 13 additional months. so it s a total of 43 additional months added to the 47 he already had in virginia, that comes out to about 7 1/2 years. he gets credit for the 9 months he s already served in jail. of course under the federal system, if defendants behave well, they can get up to 47 days a year, in essence, time off for good behavior. there s no parole in federal prison. the sentence will come out to be somewhere 6 1/2 total sentence if he gets the time off for good behavior. that s why i say he turns 70 april 1st. he could be out of prison by the time he s 76.
pete williams, now joining us, that collusion was not an issue here. that is a non sequitur. he was not charged with that. we know russia and that relationship, those allegations are the heart of the mueller case but that was not what was on trial here. she s pushing back against what his defense attorneys said in virginia after the sentencing last week and what the president of the united states said, more importantly. and what the defense said in its sentencing memo in this case here in the district, andrea, they have said were it not for the fact he was the campaign chairman for donald trump for a while, this never would have been such a high-profile trial. kevin downing, his defense lawyer in the pretrial memo said there s no collusion here. this has nothing to do with russia, even though this was brought by the special counsel. in fact, the first case the special counsel brought to court. the judge said, it doesn t
matter. i m sentencing paul manafort for hiding all that money from the internal revenue service, for failing to disclose it to the federal government he was lobbying for a foreign government here on american soil. she said that tends to disrupt the american political system. his whole life, she said, has been nothing but lies and trying to gain the system. it did seem like a windup to perhaps a more severe sentence than he ended up getting today. just to be a little more sentence about how the sentence works, andrea. she sentenced him to 60 months on count one. count one was a catchall conspiracy charge sort of basically for all of the conduct involving hiding mope from the government. basically everything he was convicted on in virginia except for the bank fraud limited to the virginia trial. but she said half of that will be served concurrently, the same time as the virginia sentence. so that 60 total, of which half is concurrent, that s a net of
at paul manafort today. we have yet to see the real guts of what paul of what robert mueller was originally assigned to investigate, which is what happened with konstantin kilimnik? what happened with wikileaks? we see pieces of this on the edges of these prosecutions, but i think until we see roger stone s trial, presumptively, and what s in the mueller report and any other indictments that may come down before the mueller report, this is an unfinished chapter. it s an unfinished chapter. and the question is whether we, the public, will ever be able to finish it. i think mueller certainly has the answers to those questions. he knows what happened in that meeting that paul manafort had with constantikonstantin kilimn. he has rick gates in cooperation telling him. the big question is whether we find out if there are no indictments brought. if there are no indictments brought, another conspiracy indictment around collusion, the collusion question that s brought before mueller wraps u
is forced to consider, has to consider, to come up with a fair sentence but systematically taking apart arguments manafort and his counsel made, saying that a significant portion of his life was spent gaming the system. saying that while he did technically take responsibility in the fact he did plead guilty, after the time he pled guilty, he continued to lie to prosecutors and the grand jury. especially she made a really important point that this argument his attorneys keep making in court filings and on the courthouse steps, that there is no collusion, that s not a question, number one, presented at this trial. number two, that seems intended for another audience. a clear reference to the president of the united states. not a point she had to make. a striking thing to say. the president picked it up immediately on the south lawn a day or so later. it was clearly for what many described on capitol hill, many democratic critics of the president as a plea for a pardon from the defense