Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort sentenced to 47 months in prison

President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been sentenced to 47 months in prison for tax and bank fraud crimes.

Manafort was the first to be charged as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election. 

The sentence of nearly four years in prison, handed down on Thursday, is far more lenient than the 69 year old was expected to receive; prosecutors had cited federal sentencing guidelines that called for 19 to 24 years in prison.