Tag Archives: sentencing

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 disparities, T.S. Ellis, Trump Tower, Ukraine, unregistered foreign agent, Viktor Yanukovych, witness tampering | 93 Comments

Flynn, Mueller says, has provided “substantial help” to investigators, allowing them to significantly advance “several ongoing investigations”

By Mark | December 4, 2018

Special counsel Robert Mueller, in a memo filed in federal court this evening, requested that former Trump administration National Security Adviser Michael Flynn (seen above in happier times, chanting “lock her up” with Donald Trump) be sentence to as little as no time in prison, in spite of his having pleaded guilty to lying to […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, collusion, Donald Trump, flipping, Jared Kushner, Lock Her Up, lying, Paul Manafort, Robert Mueller, Russia, Russiagate, Sergey Kislyak | 49 Comments

June 18 mayoral debate at Dreamland Tonight

By Mark | May 25, 2010

The next episode of Dreamland Tonight will be taped before a live audience on the evening of Friday, June 18, in Ypsilanti’s historic Dreamland Theater. This show, among other things, will feature a mayoral debate moderated by Puppet Mark, between incumbent mayor Paul Schreiber and his challenger, former Ypsilanti mayor Pete Murdock, who currently serves […]