UPDATE: Read the Government's Sentencing Memorandum
An excerpt (pages 1-2):
Manafort committed an array of felonies for over a decade, up through the fall of 2018.
Manafort chose repeatedly and knowingly to violate the law— whether the laws proscribed garden-variety crimes such as tax fraud, money laundering, obstruction of justice, and bank fraud, or more esoteric laws that he nevertheless was intimately familiar with, such as the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). His criminal actions were bold, some of which were committed while under a spotlight due to his work as the campaign chairman and, later, while he was on bail from this Court.
And the crimes he engaged in while on bail were not minor; they went to the heart of the criminal justice system, namely, tampering with witnesses so he would not be held accountable for his crimes.
Even after he purportedly agreed to cooperate with the government in September 2018, Manafort, as this court found, lied to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), this office, and the grand jury. His deceit, which is a fundamental component of the crimes of conviction and relevant conduct, extended to tax preparers, bookkeepers, banks, the Treasury Department, the Department of Justice National Security Division, the FBI, the Special Counsel’s Office, the grand jury, his own legal counsel, Members of Congress, and members of the executive branch of the United States government.
In sum, upon release from jail, Manafort presents a grave risk of recidivism.
Summaries:
Mueller Memo Outlines Paul Manafort’s ‘Repeated and Brazen’ Life of Crime (Daily Beast)
Prosecutors say Manafort's 'criminal actions were bold' in redacted sentencing memo (CNN)
Mueller files redacted Paul Manafort sentencing memo (CBS News)
Mueller team’s sentencing memo on Manafort is released (Washington Post)
Special Counsel Robert Mueller had a midnight deadline to file his last sentencing memorandum in the government's case against Paul Manafort.
Manafort had pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States and witness tampering in his DC case as part of the cooperation agreement he eventually breached by lying to prosectors.
Mueller filed the sentencing memo for Manafort's Virginia case last Friday, and the government agreed with the recommended guidelines of a 19 to 24-year sentence, up to $24.3 million in fines, $24.8 million in restitution, and $4.4 million in forfeitures.
CNN:
Manafort's defense team has until Monday to file their own request for his sentence. He will be sentenced by federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson on March 13 in his DC case. Five days earlier, he'll learn his sentence for the eight financial fraud convictions in the separate case in Virginia.
Manafort, who turns 70 in a month, has been jailed since June for the witness tampering.
Mueller could tell all in last major court filing in Paul Manafort's case (CNN)