The most disgraceful aspect of Judge Ellis's sentencing of Manafort is he spent 2 hours in a sham exercise of applying Sentencing Guidelines, accepted the calculations and their bases, found no reason to depart, & then imposed the absurdly low sentence he wanted to impose anyway. https://t.co/93H9UmFPLD

— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) March 11, 2019