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March 14, 2019

Former Trump Campaign Chair Sentenced to 43 More Months in Prison
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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., sentenced President Trump's former
campaign chair Paul Manafort Wednesday to an additional 43 months in
prison on criminal conspiracy charges. The new sentence means Manafort
will serve a 7.5-year prison term, after he was sentenced last week by a
federal judge in Virginia on eight counts of bank fraud and tax evasion.

Moments after Manafort received his sentence, Manhattan District
Attorney Cy Vance Jr. unsealed an indictment charging him with 16 counts
of residential mortgage fraud and conspiracy. President Trump hasn't
ruled out a pardon for his former campaign chair, but Trump will not
have the power to pardon Manafort on the New York charges if he's
convicted.


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