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Short handing the math, it’s another 43 months. So 90 months total (which is 7.5 years). Manafort will get time served and could get up to 15% off for good behavior. So he will serve somewhere between five and six years most likely.
Happy to place a friendly wager on this: Tottenham's whatever vs a righteous YNWA graphic.
Yeah, probably 74-75 years old before he gets out. Might be a life sentence.
State charges aside: all of this assumes he doesn't get rung up on additional charges beyond the stuff they were hoping to flip him with too. They got him on the stuff they could pin on him solo for a reason.
It costs a lot of money. If I’m a taxpayer in New York, I think I would object. If the guy gets pardoned, that’s one thing. But to file right now before he gets pardoned? That seems like a waste of money and resources.
Well too late for my last post.
Well you are likely to be time-bound on a statute of limitation - depending on the charges. It would probably be cheaper to try him now - and let the sentence run concurrently with the federal sentence. He is not is position to mount an expensive defense - and he probably does not want to be in Federal Prison in New York while waiting on a trial.
Sure but if Trump means to pardon the guy we will know in less than 2 years I figure. So there’s Time right?
I think it's more likely they spring him from the pokey and put him on a plane to Moscow than they let him sit and stew for another 18 months with state charges looming.
Needs more Klopp
At least I got the timing right....
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I'm all for throwing Manafort in prison for the rest of his life, but the nerve of this guy tweeting out "no one is above the law in New York" after what he did with Weinstein, Ivanka and Don Jr is something else.
A+ work.
At least I got the timing right....
Your picture was too big - so I hope this is acceptable...
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The SoL for most felonies in NY is five years. The indictment isn’t widely available yet, but I understand it’s 16 counts of mortgage fraud. Many of those counts could be from 2014.
Iirc what the DOJ found was PM was continuing to use prior property acquired as collateral through 2017.
I'll wear it as a badge of honor - and hope it has the same effect on Liverpool that my Levy avatar seemed to have on Spurs...
It's not a done deal that Trump is going to pardon Manafort either. Sure, he has the ability to, but it does not come without a price. He also has had the ability to shut down the Mueller probe, but his advisors have told him (wisely) about the political ramifications of doing so. There will be fallout if he pardons a guy who has committed crimes with him.
What is that price? The GOP is going to turn on him for issuing a pardon for crimes unrelated to Trump or the campaign? Seriously?
How did I manage to spend the first 48 years of my life thinking that prison and jail were completely interchangeable words?
Manafort was Trump's campaign manager. He was also in on the famous Trump Tower meetings with Russians. Trump would be pardoning a guy who was one of his own partners in crime. He'd be sending a loud and clear message that Cohen is doing full time because he stopped lying for Trump while Manafort will be a free man because he continued to. I guess it's expecting too much based on what we've seen, but that might not sit well with people who actually would like to get to the truth.
Which is clearly a direct call for a pardon. There’s no reason for him to say it other than for Trump to see it.
How much would bail likely be set at?
