14 Mar 2019

More prison time for Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort

From Morning Report, 7:48 am on 14 March 2019

Former campaign chairman for U.S President Donald Trump, Paul Manafort will serve another three years in prison on top of his sentence he received last week. The charges against him stem from the inquiry by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into possible Russian meddling in the 2016 US election. In total he will now spend seven and a half years in prison in total. Judge Amy Berman told the court that Mr. Manafort spent a significant portion of his career gaming the system. Our correspondent Daniel Ryntjes joins us from Washington DC.