(WASHINGTON) — Lawyers for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort are asking a judge in Virginia for leniency ahead of a sentencing hearing next week.
Manafort is to be sentenced next Thursday after being convicted last summer of eight financial crimes.
Probation officials have calculated a sentencing guideline range of between 19.5 and 24 years in prison for Manafort. Prosecutors with special counsel Robert Mueller's office have endorsed that calculation.
