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The Mueller investigation has linked Paul Manafort to Russia, but what does this mean for Trump and the 2016 presidential campaign?
Hannah Gaber, United States Today

NEW YORK – State prosecutors in Manhattan hit Paul Manafort with a new indictment on Wednesday, about an hour after the former Trump campaign director was sentenced to a term of imprisonment in a federal prison.

Unlike the two federal cases in which Manafort was sentenced to a term of imprisonment, a conviction for the charges announced by Manhattan District lawyer Cyrus Vance would likely be out of reach of President Donald Trump.

The indictment in New York, containing 16 charges, claims that Manafort has received more than $ 1 million by collaborating with other unnamed individuals to voluntarily submit false financial statements when seeking residential mortgage loan.

The charges include residential mortgage fraud, conspiracy, falsification of corporate documents and participation in a scheme to defraud. The alleged crimes were committed between December 22, 2015 and March 7, 2016, according to the alleged indictment.

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"No one is beyond the law in New York," Vance said in an official statement accompanying the charges. "Following an investigation opened by our office in March 2017, a Manhattan grand jury has charged Mr. Manafort with state violations of the law, which undermine New York's sovereign interests, including the lack of public policy. integrity of our residential mortgage credit market. "

Manafort's lawyers did not immediately answer questions regarding the new charges.

A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced the long-time political officer to a total of 7 ½ years in prison, adding 43 months to the sentence he's inflicted on another federal case in Virginia last week.

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A federal judge sentenced former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to more than three and a half years in prison. (March 13)
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Some of the federal charges against Manafort included evidence of the properties he had bought in New York and the mortgages he had obtained.

Vance 's office did not immediately answer questions by email asking if the new indictment represented an effort to protect the New York case from a possible presidential pardon.

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