UPDATE: Manafort will get somewhere between 17 to 21 years in prison, according to a quick read of this document. His DC and Virginia sentences will run concurrent. If correct, he'll have a chance of being out of prison in his late 80s—if he's still alive. justice.gov/file/1094151/d…
2/ According to his agreement, however, *if* Manafort's cooperation satisfies the government he'll have the right to argue for a downward adjustment of the sentencing guidelines that could give him *less* than 17 to 21 years. So he *could* have a shot at a *little* bit of a life.
3/ This would seem to suggest Manafort is going to be asked to cooperate across all topics, not just non-campaign issues (as NPR's source said; I'm worried NPR used—as too many media are—Trump legal-team sources). If he wants the biggest downward adjustment he'll need to do that.
4/ It also looks like Manafort's forfeiture could *dwarf* the $7.7 million cost of the Mueller investigation so far—meaning the investigation has "paid for itself" many times over and Trump's tweets about the cost of the investigation (already quite small) are now *nonsensical*.
