Quote Originally Posted by blake View Post
i'm far far from an expert on this but i think that with good time, manafort can knock off another 6 months from his sentence and spend the last year of it in a halfway house. with time served, we're close to manafort being out of prison before trump's first term ends.

a pardon is almost moot at that point

how did mueller recommend 20 years and this happened?

you can knock of 15% with good behavior. The halfway house is an option sometimes for first offenders after serving some of their sentence but I've never had anyone get it.

the article I read didn't have the minimum mentioned. so I am guessing the judge just deviated down for his "good friend."


I mean, for 6 million in unpaid taxes I might do 2 years in a country club military "prison."

I think the DC judge is going to slam him though, so he will be back to needing the pardon in 2 years.