The following article by Lydia Wheeler was posted on the Hill website August 23, 2018:
It’s a Trump pardon or bust for Paul Manafort.
Winning a presidential pardon may be the only hope of escaping prison for President Trump’s former campaign chairman now that he’s been convicted on eight counts of tax and bank fraud stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
Manafort, 69, is facing a sentence that could put him behind bars for the rest of his life. And while no sentencing date has been set yet, he could know his prison term before a federal jury in Washington, D.C., considers evidence against him on separate charges in a second criminal trial that starts Sept. 17.