Otherwise blameless
Manafort got 47 months.
Mueller had the choice to recommend Manafort’s DC sentence be served consecutively or concurrently and decided to wait and see what Ellis did first. Glad they still have that card to play because justice was not served tonight.
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) March 8, 2019
They sure have two different kinds of justice in this country.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) March 8, 2019
Manafort’s 47-month sentence in ED Va is outrageously lenient. Judge Ellis has inexcusably perverted justice and the guidelines. His pretrial comments were a dead giveaway. The DC sentence next week had better be consecutive.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) March 8, 2019
Judge Ellis’s assessment that Manafort led an “otherwise blameless life” was proof that he’s unfit to serve on the federal bench. I’ve rarely been more disgusted by a judge’s transparently preferential treatment to a rich white guy who betrayed the law and the nation.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) March 8, 2019
An otherwise blameless life?!! He helped Yanukovich smear Tymoshenko. That’s not exactly blameless.
A shorter sentence than black woman in Texas who got 5 years for voting while on supervised release https://t.co/CsIHHDbvw7
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) March 8, 2019
Updating to add an informative tweet:
FYI in 2018, #JudgeEllis sentenced Frederick Turner, 37, to a mandatory minimum of 40 years in prison for dealing methamphetamine: "I chafe a bit at that, but I follow the law. If I thought it was blatantly immoral, I'd have to resign. It's wrong, but not immoral." #PaulManafort
— Laura Coates (@thelauracoates) March 8, 2019
Pffft. Furreners.
Saying that a serial criminal has led an ‘otherwise blameless life’ is an interesting use of english.
When you strip away all the stuff we can blame him for, he’s pure as the driven snow.
Who among us hasn’t suborned the murder of a few Eastern Europeans?
An otherwise blameless article in The Atlantic may be of interest.
http://on.theatln.tc/PbNupyL