It took four days for jurors to decide the guilt or innocence of Paul Manafort regarding 18 counts of tax evasion, bank fraud and hiding foreign bank accounts, but they’ve finally finished deliberating.
First, here’s a summary of what they were deliberating:
Tonight on #TheBeat...
— TheBeat w/Ari Melber (@TheBeatWithAri) August 20, 2018
An update on the Paul Manafort trial on day 3 of jury deliberations. pic.twitter.com/UgYwczD1wF
The jury could only come to a consensus on 8 out of the 18 counts:
*MANAFORT JURY COULDN'T REACH VERDICT ON TEN COUNTS
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) August 21, 2018
BREAKING: Manafort jury has reached a verdict in 8 of the 18 counts
— Michael Del Moro (@MikeDelMoro) August 21, 2018
The judge wants to interview the jurors one on one:
https://twitter.com/amandawgolden/status/1032002430911823879MANAFORT TRIAL JUDGE WILL INTERVIEW JURORS ONE ON ONE
— johnmccaa (@johnmccaa) August 21, 2018
As CNN points out, that’s going to take some time. But we’ll post the verdict as soon as we get it…
UPDATE: The news is reporting that the judge has declared a mistrial on 10 counts and has been found guilty on all 8 counts that were decided:
https://twitter.com/spettypi/status/1032003590230040576MANAFORT GUILTY ON EIGHT OF EIGHTEEN, MISTRIAL ON TEN COUNTS.
— Phil Elliott (@Philip_Elliott) August 21, 2018
Manafort found guilty on 8 counts
— Steve Brusk (@stevebruskCNN) August 21, 2018
Here’s more:
*MANAFORT FOUND GUILTY ON ALL FIVE TAX FRAUD CHARGES and ON ONE COUNT OF FAILING TO FILE F-BAR
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) August 21, 2018
*MANAFORT FOUND GUILTY ON TWO COUNTS OF BANK FRAUD https://t.co/SR0hdWbLxY
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) August 21, 2018
BREAKING: Per Fox's @pdoocy - Manafort found guilty on five tax filing charges, failure to file on foreign bank/financial accounts, 2 bank fraud charges
— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) August 21, 2018
Paul Manafort has been found guilty on 8 felony counts:
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 21, 2018
• 5 counts of tax fraud
• 1 count of failing to file a foreign bak account
• 2 counts of bank fraud
(The judge declared a mistrial on the other 10 counts.)@KenDilanianNBC reports on @MSNBC
Preet Bharara tells CNN that it’s likely Manafort will only serve a few years in prison, not the huge numbers everyone likes to cite.