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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2023
In 2018, Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, was convicted after a federal trial on multiple counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud, and a single count of failure to disclose a foreign bank account. (He subsequently pleaded guilty in a separate case to additional offenses.) At the time of his arrest in 2017, several mainstream media sources reported that Manafort faced as much as eighty years’ imprisonment.2 Technically, this term of years was correct. Had a district court judge maximized the sentence under each count and strung those sentences together consecutively, Manafort could have received eighty years’ imprisonment. In fact, Manafort faced – and ultimately received – a far shorter sentence, prior to his eventual pardon.3
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