President Trump’s former campaign chief is going to spend less than four years in prison for his tax and bank fraud conviction.  The 47 month sentence stems from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.  Manafort could’ve been sentenced to up to 24 year in prison.  Just before sentencing […]

Former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort will likely not get a lighter sentence for his plea deal.  A federal judge voided the agreement after determing that he lied to investigators when he was supposed to be cooperating with him.  That means that Manafort will probably not receive a reduced sentence for the charges he pled […]

Uh Oh… Paul Manafort’s former business partner is admitting that he committed crimes with the former Trump campaign chief.  Rick Gates took the witness stand Monday in the bank fraud and money laundering trial against Manafort in Alexandria, Virginia.  Gates confessed that he and Manafort did not report over a dozen foreign bank accounts, even […]

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The GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee is supposed to have the unique and innate ability to “speak off the cuff, even when seemingly uninformed on the topic.”