I really like like the idea of the choice of giving up all his assets and a lighter prison time. Forfeiture of all assets might be a great deterrent to financial type crimes.
Because Manafort turned an entire election to his(the judges)favor and the next appointment for him will be to the Supreme Court.
Or a presidential pardon if the guy's on the take. They're handing out those things like candy, I hear. Maybe from a presidential Pez dispenser.
We don't really know where we are with his sentencing yet. The judge acknowledged that he is coordinating sentencing with the judge in the other court. So we dont know whether his sentencing time in the other court will be additive or concurrent or what. But he will get less than you want to see and more than I want to see. I can't remember whether he plead away his right to appeal. I doubt it because he did not get a deal. The government went full savage. If he can appeal, the appeal court should throw all the cases out when the bogus fisa/mccabe type charges and government collusion are fully made known before long. The government concocted phony charges and dossier "facts", foisted a fraud upon the courts to get warrants and then just went after whatever they could get on anyone in Camp Trump. Americans fought a revolution to get away from that shit.
The honorable judge even delivered the NO COLLUSION verdict. This judge like Kavanah is going to get very very rich very soon. Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump Both the Judge and the lawyer in the Paul Manafort case stated loudly and for the world to hear that there was NO COLLUSION with Russia. But the Witch Hunt Hoax continues as you now add these statements to House & Senate Intelligence & Senator Burr. So bad for our Country!
Or said another way. We have no knowledge [yet] of what Mueller has found about any direct communications or money exchanging hands between Russian hacking operatives and either those representing the Trump Campaign or Trump himself. At some point, those of us who are not dead will know if Mueller found anything. All we know at this point is that Trump's Campaign Chairman shared poll results prior to the election with a Russian Operative, but not necessarily a "hacking operative," and that a least one campaign person "love[d] it" when he heard of the prospect of Russians furnishing dirt on Trump's opponent. What we can be 100% certain of [so far], however, is that Trump's family Run Organization is guilty of Running a Phoney Tax dodge called the Donald J. Trump Foundation, Money Laundering -- and it wasn't table clothes-- and running a phony "University". We are also 99% certain that Trump violated campaign finance law, as he was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in an indictment that resulted in the other conspirator pleading guilty. Did Trump also Obstruct Justice, in all probability , Yes! Can he be indicted and convicted for that. Maybe.* All of this criminal activity, however, pales in comparison to Trump's incompetence and the dangers for the country resulting from Trump's apparent mental malady. That's the real issue left to our Congress and U.S. citizens to grapple with. The quicker "The Trump Issue" gets resolved, the better, as the damage gets worse with each passing day. _____________________ *the foregoing accounting of the Trump related civil and criminal law violations, barely scratches the surface of Trump crimes. There is a vast panoply of crimes the Trump Crime Family, Trump Organization, or Trump personally is in all likelihood guilty of after a lifetime of continuous criminal activity. Mentioned specifically above is only a limited selection of known violations that his organization, family or he has already been found guilty of and paid restitution for, or else are currently in the Trump crime hopper waiting for final resolution.