WASHINGTON �� Special counsel Robert Mueller told the judge in Washington who'll soon sentence Paul Manafort that President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman "repeatedly and brazenly violated the law" and that his prison term should take into account the "gravity" of his conduct.
Manafort is scheduled to be sentenced separately March 8 in Virginia and March 13 in Washington. He could be sentenced to as long as 10 years in prison in the Washington case.
Mueller filed a sentencing memo Saturday, eight days after his prosecutors told a judge in Alexandria, Va., that the former international political strategist faces 19 years to 24 years for his conviction there on bank- and tax-fraud charges. Manafort was Trump's campaign chairman from May to August 2016.
"His criminal actions were bold" and some "were committed while under a spotlight due to his work as the campaign chairman and, later, while he was on bail from this court," attorneys from the special counsel's office wrote.
