What happened

Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, got a second prison sentence this week, bringing his term to seven and a half years—by far the longest sentence to date resulting from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Manafort, 69, pleaded guilty to not disclosing high-paying lobbying work in Ukraine, then tampered with two witnesses and lied to investigators after agreeing to cooperate. With more than 20 of Mueller’s staff in the Washington, D.C., courtroom, Judge Amy Berman Jackson said, “It is hard to overstate the number of lies and the amount of fraud” involved in Manafort’s case. Jackson added 43 months to the nearly four-year sentence ordered last week by a judge in Alexandria, Va., following Manafort’s conviction for eight felony counts of bank and tax fraud. “This defendant is not Public Enemy No. 1,” Jackson said, “but he’s also not a victim.”

Just an hour later, a New York grand jury indicted Manafort on 16 counts related to millions of dollars in alleged mortgage fraud, an effort by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. to convict Manafort on state charges should Trump pardon his federal crimes. Trump hasn’t ruled out a pardon, saying he felt “very badly” for Manafort after last week’s sentencing. Manafort lost out on a lighter prison term by voiding his cooperation agreement with the special prosecutor. By contrast, Mueller’s office recommended little or no prison time for former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, who completed his year-plus of cooperating testimony this week.