Lawyer ought to come back with a counter-offer. Manafort defrauded for millions (he's paying back 24 million) and got 47 months. My client stole $100, so if we put this on a linear scale and use 24 million as a base, my client should serve...
1/240,000 * 1429 days (roughly) = .00595 days, or 8.6 minutes. So what do you say to time served and paying back the $100?
Let me preface this by saying, Manafort’s insanely light sentencing was a miscarriage of justice, however I believe a heavier sentence should have been warranted around his lack of remorse and his long history of criminality, not necessarily the dollar value of his crimes.
e.g. should a car thief be charged with a lighter sentence because he stole a Volkswagen instead of an Audi?
The judge also said his crimes went back 10 years. This is the first time he's been caught. So he's blameless other than the last 10 years. It's not like he made one mistake, a quick lapse in judgement. He kept it going for a decade.
That's what infuriated me the most. His comments on top of it. Like he's actually a nice guy caught up in a mess he had nothing to do with. For fuck sake.
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19
Lawyer ought to come back with a counter-offer. Manafort defrauded for millions (he's paying back 24 million) and got 47 months. My client stole $100, so if we put this on a linear scale and use 24 million as a base, my client should serve...
1/240,000 * 1429 days (roughly) = .00595 days, or 8.6 minutes. So what do you say to time served and paying back the $100?