Paul Manafort sentenced to 47 months in prison for fraud, tax evasion

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last updated 8 March 2019

President Trump's former campaign chair Paul Manafort was sentenced to 47 months in prison Thursday evening.

Manafort will receive nine months of time already served. The sentencing comes after Manafort was convicted last summer on one count of failing to file a foreign bank account, two counts of bank fraud, and five counts of tax evasion. Before he announced the sentence, Judge T.S. Ellis said Manafort has "otherwise lived a blameless life."

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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.

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