Manafort Sentence

Manafort gets off easy with a sympathetic judge.

Manafort gets nearly 4 years in prison, far less than guidelines

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort faced roughly 20 years in prison for cheating on his taxes and bank fraud. A judge called the guidelines “excessive“ and sentenced Manafort instead to 47 months.

• By Rachel Weiner, Lynh Bui, Justin Jouvenal and Devlin Barrett