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The sentence, as well as the events leading up to it, as well as the coming sentence, not to mention the financial losses and complete disgrace, as well as the toll it's taken on him, certainly seem to my mind that he's paid a price no less than what he had ordered at the cosmic restaurant of life.
However the issue here concerning Manafort's lenient sentence is not about whether he's been punished enough, the point of the controversy about the leniency, is that it's a public repudiation of justice for all.
Judges normally go by the sentencing guidelines which were a *minimum* of 10 years. Judges rarely strayed from the guidelines that much. This whole situation is similar to Oscar Pistorius who also represented the privileged whites who are above the law in S.A.
He clearly murdered his girlfriend by blasting her to death at point blank range because he didn't know she was in the toilet, he lied. It didn't occur to him to shout out first, as any normal human would have done.
He got sentenced initially to five years, and with parole would have been out in two.
There's nothing big deal about this Manafort sentence, in that it's not like we didn't already know there's one rule of law for the wealthy and connected and then there's the rule of law for everyone else.
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