lmao yes congrats to Paul Manafort for having to serve only up to 80 years in prison instead of up to 305 years 🎉
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@malice He'll be sentenced to no more than 15, closer to 10. Been saying this for months -- based on the sentencing guidelines. The time for each will be served concurrently, not consecutively.
@ellewoodsruns Hence "up to".
He's also still up for prosecution in another district, as well. If convicted there, that won't be served concurrently.
@malice No, really. It's not "up to" that long. It's "up to" the longest term for any one of the charges he was convicted. This is per the guidelines, which **require** certain crimes to be "grouped," and thus served concurrently, instead of consecutively. All of the crimes in this case require grouping. One of those he was charged with was a 20 max, but I don't think he was convicted of it. But even if he was, it will be reduced from 20.
@ellewoodsruns Yeah no sorry I'm not revising the "up to" statement in a funny toot because you're taking it overly literal.
@malice As a prosecutor, yeah, I tend to take the sentencing guidelines literally.
The Court is required to group certain crimes. As such, it's just not possible to get to 60, thus it's not possible for it to be "up to" 60.
The 5 tax fraud must be grouped.
The 2 bank fraud must be grouped.
Assuming the court doesn't group tax and bank, he's got 3 separate groupings (adding failure to report) --> sopping wet, abso max, it's 15-ish. If they group tax and bank, to 2 groups, it's less than 10.