A federal judge on Thursday sentenced President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort to serve 47 months in prison, a far shorter length of time than prosecutors in the case had argued for.
Both cases were brought on charges lodged by special counsel Robert Mueller in his ongoing probe of Russia's election meddling and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.
Manafort is expected to serve only 38 more months of the 47-month sentence because of time he has already spent incarcerated.
"The last two years have been the most difficult for my family and I," Manafort said in his plea for compassion from the judge.
Before delivering his sentence, Ellis said that Manafort has "been a good friend to others, a generous person.".
Manafort had been convicted in the Virginia court last summer on eight counts of bank fraud, tax fraud and failing to file a foreign bank account report.
Manafort was not convicted on 10 other criminal counts in that case, which were deadlocked by the 12-person jury. »