“Tough sentence” indeed!
And they didn’t even TRY the poor bastid.
This is what they do in Banana Republic countries. Manafort is simply another political prisoner of the Politburo.
We've been banana republic for years. Only the commons suffer. Is Manafort a crook,
probably. He was also connected for years. .Gov has ruined many a small time offender or the average joe. We now are getting small glimpses of what it can do against the well connected, or choose not to do[Hillary, etc].