Federal judge: Paul Manafort faces 'very real possibility' of spending rest of life in prison
In this June 21, 2017 photo, Special Counsel Robert Mueller departs Capitol Hill. (Saul Loeb/AP)
"Specifically, given the nature of the charges against the defendant and the apparent weight of the evidence against him, defendant faces the very real possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison, " wrote Ellis.
Yet another so-called "witch" caught by the Mueller "Witch Hunt"!
"In this regard, [Manafort] poses a substantial risk of flight and the above-mentioned conditions are the least restrictive conditions that will reasonably assume defendant's appearance at trial," Ellis added in the order, which indicates it was originally filed Friday.
While Ellis did not mandate Manafort forfeit any assets, Ellis did order that the defendant agree to and sign a pledge to pay a $10 million unsecured bond if he misses a court appearance.
In late February, Manafort's longtime business partner, Rick Gates, pleaded guilty to a dramatically reduced set of charges in federal court in exchange for his cooperation with Mueller’s probe. As part of Gates’ plea deal, he now faces just two felony counts provided he cooperates fully with the special counsel's investigators.
And Rick Gates was another "Witch" caught by the so-called "Mueller Witch Hunt"!.
I guess the Judge and the real Justice system didn't get the memo that this whole investigation is just because the Democrats lost the 2016 election, is a witch hunt and is just "Fake News" so Manfort must be going to spend the rest of his life in a "fake" prison.
Mueller is like a slow moving tank. He just keeps coming forward more everyday and seems unstoppable.
Its amazing how some people still believe that Mueller hasn't had any results yet..when in fact there have been indictments as well actual guilty pleas.
Mueller is like a slow moving tank
Good analogy.
Or-- sometimes I think of him as being like the "Energizer Bunny" (it keeps going and going and going...)
Love the Energizer Bunny analogy. It does fit!
Also every time I hear someone with their wishful or deluded thinking saying that this investigation going nowhere I think of Robert Mueller. The indictments. The sentences, The plea deals. The upcoming trials. The subpoenas of bank records from all of those off-shore banks looking at the accounts of Donald Trump, both Jr and SR and those of Jared Kushner, obviously looking at money laundering and I have no doubt finding it. Robert Mueller has tons and tons of evidence and his investigation has not leaked any of it and we have not yet seen 1% of the tip of the iceberg of what he has and is ready to report. I suspect there will be a really long list of indictments yet to come.
The fact that he and his Prosecuting Attorneys get up every morning and go to work doing the serious investigation that they are involved in is the one real hope our Democracy has.
It would be refreshing to see one of the naughty people from the upper tier get theirs.
What would be better should he be sentenced, is to see him cast into the general prison population where he can experience what he has done to others for so long first hand.
It would be. However most of the ones who will spend time in prison will spend it in a Federal "Country club" minimum security prisons. Some of them are located on military bases and do not even have walls. They have lines painted on the pavement to indicate where the prisoners are not allowed to go beyond. The prisoners live in a compound where each of them have what amounts to a bare "motel room" about the same size as one that they can pretty much put on the walls what every they want, have a radio and color TV, cable, computer access, their own bathroom, etc. Of course they have to maintain it as clean and they eat in a communal kitchen where they have to participate in cooking and cleaning etc. Some do have a fitness center with tennis courts and a swimming pool. However it is hardly hard time and no one is going to get raped in the shower.
It sounds like first hand up close and personal knowledge. What did Manafort do exactly?. Wonder if the left wingers are still going to be stuck on this collusion/obstructing justice/money laundering conspiracy theory stuff after the midterms. I suspect Mueller will have wrapped up the "investigations" by that time.
Skirting the CoC [ph]
2 day suspension for CoC violations ending March 17 at 12:30 pm.
I have never personally been to prison of any kind. I do know about Federal minimum security prisons from multiple documentaries of them done about some of the Nixon administration who spent such time in them.
He doesn’t have to worry Trump can pardon him.
Actually, Trump can only pardon for federal crimes. Those are what, 27 years? 200+ years are not for federal charges.
If he is guilty then fuck him, send him to prison for as long as possible.
Paul Manafort asks judge to dismiss criminal charges against him
Lol - facing over 300 years in prison, and he asks for charges to be dropped. Good luck Paul.