WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort, the president’s former campaign chairman, who was sentenced last week to 47 months in prison, faces the prospect of even more time behind bars when a federal judge in the District of Columbia sentences him on Wednesday for conspiracy. Closing out the special counsel’s highest-profile prosecution, Judge Amy Berman Jackson of Federal District Court in Washington will sentence Mr. Manafort, 69, on two conspiracy counts that each carry a maximum term of five years. The charges, to which Mr. Manafort pleaded guilty last fall, encompass a host of crimes including money laundering and obstruction of justice. Judge Jackson will be weighing an unusual set of circumstances. That might make it harder for Judge Jackson, who takes pride in explaining herself in terms that ordinary people can understand, to describe how she arrived at her sentence.

Source: New York Times March 13, 2019 11:02 UTC