Tuesday, March 12, 2019

WASHPOST: Manafort sentence stiffer than most bank-fraud cases

Paul Manafort’s prison sentence of less than four years on bank- and tax-fraud charges sparked outrage from commentators who said it was too light a punishment for his crimes, reported the Washington Post.
But a review of data for all 452 similar cases nationwide in fiscal 2018 show President Trump’s former campaign chairman received a sentence that was somewhat stiffer than other federal defendants’ prison terms.
The average prison sentence in such bank-fraud cases was about 31 months, roughly 16 months shorter than the 47 months Manafort received for convictions in federal court in Northern Virginia, according to an analysis of court data maintained by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC).
But Manafort, who was convicted by a jury in August 2018, fared much better when compared with other defendants who were also convicted by federal juries.
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