Special Counsel Robert Mueller told the judge who’ll sentence President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman that Paul Manafort “brazenly violated the law” for a decade and presents a “grave risk” of committing new crimes. “For over a decade, Manafort repeatedly and brazenly violated the law,” Mueller’s prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo unsealed Saturday in federal court in Washington. After his guilty plea, Manafort “committed the additional crimes of perjury and making false statements.” Mueller hasn’t charged Manafort with those crimes, but U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson can consider that conduct at sentencing. Jackson will sentence Manafort after U.S. District Judge T.S. The DC case is U.S. v. Manafort, 17-cr-201, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Washington).

Source: National Post February 23, 2019 21:22 UTC