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Republican-Appointed "Judge" Sentencing Manafort: Old White Guy Goes Easy On Old White Guy.

posted 6 years ago by [deleted]
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Judge TS Ellis before giving Manafort his sentence noted he "lived an otherwise blameless life," was a good friend, and generous person to others.

A laughable four year sentence.

No worries. Manafort is still awaiting sentencing by the D.C. court.

This is the same "judge" who dismissed the El Masri case in 2006, allowing the CIA to torture and kidnap a falsely accused man without repercussion.

[–] ultravioletx (10237) 6 years ago

Lets just hope Jared Kushner's check doesn't bounce.

[–] Thrillhouse (1509) 6 years ago

Judge is rich. Manafort is rich. Hmmm... can't be that. Must be because he's white!

Class privlidge doesn't exist in the world of the left, where poor hillbillies get all the breaks.

[–] snepts (11123) 6 years ago

What a great opportunity to explore the IGNORE option

[–] Thrillhouse (1509) 6 years ago

You don't even know what crime Manafort is being prosecuted for. It's not for all that money laundering he did. The OP deliberately hid the most basic facts from you.

[–] ultravioletx (10237) 6 years ago

Keep defending the rich you corporate monkey.

[–] Frogarama (12942) 6 years ago

You'd get another bonus point for focusing on the class war at the heart of so much.... but this is coming after you tossed out an anti-gay propaganda lie earlier, so you negated that good grace.

This message is for you running the Thrillhouse account: I sincerely hope you have a normal account you post with as yourself, because the good stuff you post is great.... just too rare.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

He justified it by saying that he was sentencing him based on what other offenders who committed similar crimes got.

In other words, other white collar criminals get off easy, so he's getting off easy too.

[–] Thrillhouse (1509) 6 years ago

A CIA-friendly judge gives a favorable ruling to a guy the CIA says is a Russian agent? Which side is he on!?

The "Intelligence Community". You champagne socialists are ridiculous.

[–] snepts (11123) 6 years ago

What a great opportunity to explore the IGNORE option

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

He’s still getting “ locked up “ ! One down with many more to go.

[–] yatzo376 (7717) 6 years ago

That’s right ! Many more to come

[–] Rorikon (17875) 6 years ago

Sentencing guideline for what he did calls for 19-24 years in jail instead of the so-called nearly 4 years term of 47 months. He's suppose to face another federal judge though for other sentencing stuff which could add on. I wish someone that's going to jail would bring it up to a judge by saying why not give me a shorter sentence like so and so as I have only done the exact same thing as he/she did.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

IF the other judge 'throws the book at him' he will face up to an additional 10 years. If she allows him to serve 'concurrently' then he will only have an additional six tacked on. If she orders him to serve 'consecutively' then he is facing a total of 14 years.

However, there's a good chance she will follow the other Judge (as respect to his decision) and go easy on Manafort by giving him the minimum, and letting him serve concurrently. So he may be facing just four years, or realistically - 3 years, since he's already served 9 months awaiting sentencing, and may get a few months off for 'good behavior'.

[–] Sandoz (2021) 6 years ago

I disagree--I don't think the judge in DC will respect the Virginia judge's ruling at all. It doesn't deserve respect; it was a blatant slap in the face to the sentencing guidelines by undercutting the minimum length of sentence by 15 years. She may not throw the book at him and give him the maximum 10 years, but it would be poetic justice if she gave Manafort the same amount of time (47 months), except tacked it on to his sentence and made him serve it CONSECUTIVELY.

Also remember, this is the judge whom Mueller's team presented their case of witness tampering by Manafort and his failure to cooperate to first and she had him remanded, so I don't think she's bound to take it easy on poor ol' Paulie.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

I hope you’re right.

Last night on one of the cable shows a legal expert feared she may “ respect” the sentencing from yesterday, otherwise it would be interpreted as her insulting the judge. That’s what I fear.

[–] Sandoz (2021) 6 years ago

Some of the pundits--no, let's make that MOST of the pundits, even the ones I usually agree with, can get it wrong a lot of the time when they're just pulling guesses out of their arses to fill up time on the cable shows (I think I saw this same show btw, I remember someone saying something about "respecting the judge's ruling").

I would think a district judge based in the nation's capital would, ahem, trump respect compared to one from Virginia, so I really feel she won't have any qualms about sending a message with her ruling if she disagrees with the sentence from Judge Ellis, The Plutocrat's Toady.

But then again, I could be just pulling a guess out of my arse!

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

We shall wait and see...

I hope she throws the book at him!

[–] ultravioletx (10237) 6 years ago

Thats a fair point. We don't know what the full sentencing is yet. It probably won't be much more but hopefully its more than 4 years total.

[–] Superduper (111) 6 years ago

Another example of how broke the US judicial system is.

A woman with a history of being physically abused by her husband (police reports and all), shoots a wall in her own house as a warning shot to scare her abusive husband away and gets 20 years. Why? Because she is a disadvantaged minority the judge thinks no one will care about and may as well throw his campaign financier (the privatized jail operator) a couple decades of revenue from the taxpayers.

Contrast that with manafort or the 16 year old drunk driver that killed 4 people and got probation due to "affluenza" and it's clear as day that the system is broken and has no consistency. How can the US population beleive that they are capable of bringing democracy and justice to the developing world when they themselves do not have these things?

[–] Sandoz (2021) 6 years ago

Two things would help:

Ousting Trump in 2020, or at least the Dems retaking control of the Senate so no more of these judges who serve the interests of the plutocrats will be appointed to keep imposing this kind of economic injustice.

Revising the laws that allow federal judges appointments "for life." I mean, who in the hell ever thought that that was a good idea?!!

[–] TimMC (9143) 6 years ago

I love your racist post. Please do more.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

The world is nothing but a smear of colour.

[–] ctwdidswej (212) 6 years ago

Jussie Smullette is a homosexual black Jew. He's getting the death penalty...

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Freedom spelled as "death penalty" is still freedom