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Get Caught Up: Paul Manafort To Be Sentenced Thursday In Bank And Tax Fraud Case

A federal judge will tell the president's former campaign chairman how much time in prison he must serve and how much money he must pay following his conviction last year.
Paul Manafort, seen outside the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington, D.C., in April 2018, is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in a Virginia case.

Seven months ago, a jury convicted President Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, in a bank and tax fraud trial that grabbed the national spotlight.

On Thursday, a federal judge is scheduled to sentence Manafort for those crimes.

Manafort was on two counts of bank fraud, five counts of tax fraud and one count of failing to declare a foreign bank account. The jury did not reach a unanimous decision on 10 other

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