Commentary: How could anyone think Paul Manafort lived an 'otherwise blameless' life?
by Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times
Mar 12, 2019
3 minutes
As a convicted tax cheat, Paul Manafort stole $6 million from taxpayers.
President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman then blew his fat stacks on Richie-Rich jive - eye-rollers such as monstrous houses, giraffe lawn ornaments, a limited-edition titanium watch, an ostrich skin jacket, a moat, four Land Rovers, blah blah blah.
Even Judge T.S. Ellis III, a federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia, who obsequiously praised Manafort at the sentencing hearing Thursday, had to concede that the fancy felon's crimes were "serious," that he had jacked the American people for his
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