Judge lambasts Manafort's lack of remorse, abundance of suits

Paul Manafort.
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Judge Amy Berman Jackson laid into former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort before sentencing him for conspiracy against the US and conspiracy to obstruct justice for attempting to tamper with witnesses.

"It's hard to overstate the number of lies, the amount of fraud, and the extraordinary amount of money involved," Berman Jackson said. Despite Manafort's apology and his attorney's pleas for a lighter sentence, Jackson added that "there is no good explanation that would warrant the leniency requested."

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.