Ellis sentences Manafort to 47 months in prison

Judge T.S. Ellis III sentenced former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to almost four years in prison for tax and bank fraud.  The federal guidelines called for a 19 to 24-year term.  At the sentencing hearing, Ellis said that Manafort had lived “an otherwise blameless life.”  A jury convicted Manafort on eight counts, including hiding from the IRS millions of dollars he earned from work in the Ukraine.  Prosecutors had asked for a significant sentence, saying that they believed Manafort was evasive and untruthful in testimony he gave to a grand jury as part of his requirement to cooperate with the Mueller investigation.