Manafort Sentencing Hearing Not Going Well For Manafort

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Paul Manafort’s second sentencing hearing is taking place right now. It doesn’t seem to be going well:

Jackson says it would be “hard to overstate” the number of lies and the extent of the fraud, “and there is no good expalantion that would warrant the leniency requested”

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) March 13, 2019