Mueller gently taps Judge Berman Jackson on the shoulder re: Manafort sentencing

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Monday, Mar. 11, 2019 Monday, Mar. 11, 2019 at 4:44:25pm PDT

Please forgive me if someone else has diaried this, but I got a smile out of this item today:

Robert Mueller Not-So-Subtly Nudges D.C. Judge to Throw the Book at Paul Manafort

Heh.

In an “I’m-just-gonna-leave-this-here” move, Mueller’s prosecutors Andrew Weissmann, Jeannie Rhee, and Greg Andres filed a one-paragraph status report with D.C. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, saying:

“The United States of America, by and through Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III, files this status report to apprise the Court of a recent development in United States v. Paul J. Manafort, Jr., No. 1:18-cr-83 (E.D. Va.) that is pertinent to this Court’s upcoming sentencing decision. Attached to this status report as Exhibit A is the transcript from the sentencing hearing on March 7, 2019.”

Mueller’s team then attaches the 96-page transcript of Manafort’s sentencing hearing, where Judge T.S. Ellis III went far below the sentencing guidelines, giving Manafort a punishment of just 47 months for his tax and bank fraud case.

This should be fun.