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Paul Manafort's sentencing memo is due by 5pm in his EDVA case. It's not in yet, but his lawyers filed a report addressing the redacted materials in his DC case from Mueller's office that led to a correction in the record re: Manafort's plea deal breach scribd.com/document/40083… 
Manafort's lawyer say that whatever the new info was about (it was from Rick Gates on 2/15, responding to recent media coverage) it was helpful to Manafort re: whether he intentionally lied, and they want the EDVA judge to take note
Manafort's lawyers say he doesn't know what effect the new info will have on the DC judge's 2/13 finding that Manafort lied after signing his plea deal. The judge had ordered a correction to "an inaccurate description of an individual or individuals" in one line of the transcript
NOW: Paul Manafort's sentencing memo is in for his EDVA case. He's not proposing a specific sentence, but argues the range submitted by Mueller's office — 19.5 to 24 years — is "clearly disproportionate." He want a sentence "substantially" below the range assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5756…
STORY: Paul Manafort isn't just using his sentencing memos to argue for leniency — he's taking some final swings at Robert Mueller, too buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
The rhetoric in Paul Manafort's sentencing memos has reignited speculation that he's angling for a pardon. In today's filing, his lawyers repeat the claim that Mueller's pursuit of Manafort was about trying to "tighten the screws" and make him flip buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
More Manafort: The judge in his DC case issued an order saying that whatever new info Rick Gates gave the govt (the docs are heavily redacted), it did not change her conclusion that Mueller's office had established that Manafort lied buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
