Not out of the woods yet.

with Amy Berman Jackson that could run consecutively, not concurrently

That's why I think it's a good case to inoculate the public. They'll claim overreach, quote judge Ellis, and that he will still be sentenced in DC. But, the first co-conspirator gets a pardon, making the second a little easier.

It is so damn light then why even pardon? Or wait until next week for a more just and much longer sentence to do it then, figuring 47 weeks is a walk in the country club venue?

I keep thinking I can't be more enraged, but here we are.

or commuted to time served. And Manafort will get his passport back, and fly off to a dacha in eastern Ukraine before New York can even get a case filed.

That's when Trump will pardon him.

and it'll fly under the radar.

We'll be angry about something else by then.

He's far too spiteful and hateful to get past what he views as a betrayal

In any case, given Paulie's debt to the Russian, he's probably only safe as long as he's in jail.

The Scooter Libby maneuver.