WASHINGTON (AP) Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced to a total of seven and a half years in prison on federal charges, then was hit almost immediately with fresh state charges in New York that could put him outside the presidents power to pardon.
In Washington on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson brushed aside Manaforts pleas for leniency and rebuked him for misleading the U.S. government about his lucrative foreign lobbying work and for encouraging witnesses to lie on his behalf.
It is hard to overstate the number of lies and the…
