Manafort was first sentenced to four years in prison last week by a federal judge.
Image: PA Images Image: PA Images PAUL MANAFORT, US President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, has been sentenced to a further three and a half years in prison.
“The defendant is not public enemy number one,” US District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said in delivering the sentence. His is the highest profile case yet stemming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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