Tag Archives: sentencing disparities

Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort receives 7.5 years in prison, and faces additional time in New York, which would not be subject to pardon

By Mark | March 13, 2019

Like a lot of folks, I was kind of pissed off last Thursday, when U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III, of the Eastern District of Virginia, chose to disregard sentencing guidelines that would have put Donald Trump’s incredibly corrupt former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, behind bars for 19.5 to 24 years, and instead just […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Amy Berman Jackson, collusion, conspiracy, conspiracy against the United States, Cy Vance, Donald Trump, House Judiciary Committee, indictments, Jerrold Nadler, Kevin Downing, lobbying, Matthew Whitaker, Michael Cohen, money laundering, New York, obstruction of justice, pardons, Paul Manafort, perjury, Robert Mueller, Russia, Russiagate, sentencing, T.S. Ellis, Trump Tower, Ukraine, unregistered foreign agent, Viktor Yanukovych, witness tampering | 93 Comments

Members of the Ypsilanti community talk with city officials about living in fear of the police and how we can work together to make things better

By Mark | July 12, 2016

Following are my extremely rough, admittedly incomplete notes on tonight’s meeting of the Ypsilanti Police-Community Relations / Black Lives Matter Joint Task Force. If you were also in the audience, and have something to add, please leave a comment. And, of course, feel free to weigh in on whatever you read below. As you’ll soon […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anger, Anne Brown, Anthony Morgan, black lives matter, body cameras, cell phones, Citizen Review Board, Crisis Intervention Team, cultural awareness, Dan Vogt, de-escalation, Eastern Washtenaw Safety Alliance, Emmett Till, Heritage Fest, implicit bias, Jerry Clayton, mental health, mental illness, Nicole Brown, over policing, police violence, prison industrial complex, racism, subject control, Tony DeGiusti, use of force, Water Street, Water Street debt reduction millage, Ypsilanti police department | 95 Comments

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