Manafort Faces March 8 Sentencing for Virginia Fraud Convictions

U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III set the date on Thursday, giving Manafort until March 1 to reply to Mueller’s recommendation that he serve between 19.6 and 24.4 years in prison.Manafort, 69, was convicted by jurors last August of bank fraud, tax fraud and failure to file a foreign bank account report.Manafort, who was President Donald Trump’s campaign chairman in 2016, also faces a March 13 sentencing in federal court in Washington.