Ciara Is A BREATH of SUNSHINE on cover for The April 2019 Issue Of InStyle Magazine
Ciara who is having a phenomenal 2019 has landed her first ever cover on InStyle magazine’s April Issue.
The stage-blazer poses it up for a feature that also sees her open up about everything from her family, launching her own record label (Beauty Marks Entertainment), her new album to the viral #LevelUpChallenge and overcoming doubt. See more photos below.
The R&B siren also scorches like only she can as she’s put up to a dance test by the magazine.
#RHOA: NeNe Leakes READS Cynthia Bailey & Says ‘RHOA’ Cast Are ‘Coworkers,’ Not Friends!
If you had any questions about ‘The Real Housewives of Atlanta’ drama, NeNe Leakes just answered everything during an Instagram Live video on March 12. She addressed the closet drama with Porsha and so much more!
NeNe Leakes, 51, spilled all of the tea about The Real Housewives of Atlanta during an Instagram Live video on March 12. If you were wondering if the rumors about her unfollowing her cast mates on social media were true — they are! NeNe fessed up to it in her long rant, where she claimed Cynthia Bailey, 52, has done “a lot of f–ked up stuff” to her that viewers don’t get a chance to see on the show. Read the full transcript below, along with the video, which was captured by The Shade Room.
“I wanted to come on Instagram Live for a few minutes because I have so many people texting me and asking me stuff; people on Twitter asking me questions,” NeNe said as she sat in the backseat of a car. “The first thing is, the first thing I saw was I followed half of my cast. That’s what the blogs have said and they are correct. Ok, so it’s been a whole lot of lies put in the press and I see people are making negative comments. It’s unfortunate, because a lot of times people don’t even know. They don’t even know half of what goes on on this show. They only get five minutes of it. It’s unfortunate.”
“Unfollowing my cast mates,” NeNe went on. “As far as Cynthia’s concerned, you’re going to have to watch the finale to see what it is that she does. Now, Cynthia’s done a lot of stuff in my opinion, on the down low and very sneaky and underhanded. I’m just telling you the truth. I also just tell it like it is. And, if you don’t like it, you don’t like it and you can figure it out. She has done a lot of stuff that you all just don’t get to see on the show, that’s just underhanded and I always come out looking like the bad guy.”
“But, she’s just done a lot of f–ked up stuff, and that’s just for real. Now, what you guys see on social media, that’s what you see. I don’t have any hate in my heart for Cynthia. We are coworkers from this day forward. I don’t have any reason to not speak to her. I’m happy to speak to her, but anything else further than that, no, it’s not going to happen. We are coworkers.”
NeNe then addressed her relationship with the rest of the RHOA cast. “And after, 11 seasons, I finally realized that these girls are my coworkers. Now, as far as the other girls sitting on the couch, they all were trying secure the bag, because half of them are boring. So, they had no other choice but to come for me. You know, they tried to come, how about that. But, they may as well go right on back, honey. It’s so crazy to me because these girls come on this show playing checkers. I’m already over here playing chess. So, it’s so ridiculous to me for all of them to all link up together and act like we’re nice and stuff, when they really aren’t . And, you know, I don’t mind being the villain, because my check gets bigger as I become the villain. So, it’s ok with me, because we all can’t be the same, it’s fine.”
Before she addressed her issues with Cynthia, NeNe advised fans to keep watching the show. She then confronted a slew of headlines she’s read in the press.
“I think people were saying, ‘NeNe attacked Porsha.’ Some sh-t like that,” NeNe said, referencing reports that she had gotten physical with Porsha Williams during a scene that was filmed inside her [NeNe’s] closet. In a recent episode of RHOA, NeNe completely exploded on Williams and Kandi Burruss for attempting to catch a glimpse inside her closet, although she expressed numerous times that she didn’t want anyone in there. The scene escalated when NeNe grabbed a cameraman who was filming, and ripped his shirt.
“Listen, number one, let’s clear all this up,” NeNe said. “So now, I want to address the Porsha thing, where Porsha is insinuating, I’ll put it like that, that she was touched in the closet, with four people in the closet, me, Porsha, Cynthia and Marlo, and Kandi. Now, the closet ain’t no damn store, it’s a closet with an island in the floor… I think what she said was that her belt came off. assume that I touched her and her belt came off. Now, I’d like to know, how is that possible, which I told her at the reunion. I wasn’t even behind you, so, how could I touch your belt? You know, it’s crazy, because what if I said I had a big ass dog in my closet and said not to go in there and he jumped out and attacked everybody. But, it’s my fault, right? But, I told you don’t go in there.”
About that closet scene — NeNe also claimed that there were faults on production’s end of the issue. “Going into my closet, it’s my closet, OK. It’s not that serious and it’s not that hard for anybody to understand. It’s my closet, I said, ‘No.’ … I always let the crew go anywhere they want in my house. So, this particular time, my husband was in the hospital, and I said I didn’t want anybody to go in my master bedroom or in my closet,” NeNe explained.
“The producers had all the rules from the very beginning. Everybody that entered my house that day had known that Greg had gone back into the hospital. If they didn’t know, I told them then. Everybody knew that I was under a tremendous amount of stress and pressure and the production team definitely knew. So, production overstepping their boundaries, that was production doing that, OK. Production wasn’t supposed to do that, they had the rules they were never supposed to film in the closet, ever.”
#Empire Serayah Reveals Life on set After The Jussie Smollett Drama she said: ‘It Definitely Has an Effect’!
The world was shocked when Jussie Smollett was arrested in February for allegedly staging a fake hate crime against himself — and that includes his Empire castmates. “I think that it definitely has an effect on everyone,” Serayah McNeill exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly.
The actress, 23, said she “honestly was not on set” when news of the scandal broke, but when she returned soon after, it was clear that the show must go on. “Right now, everyone is fine and everyone is finishing up the season and being professional about it,” the star, who plays Tiana on the Fox drama, told Us after Smollett’s arrest. “Everyone is acting very professionally, we all love this show and we have a job to do.”
Smollett, 36, originally told the Chicago Police Department that he had been attacked on January 29 by two men yelling racist and homophobic slurs. Two weeks later, police arrested two suspects, brothers Abel and Ola Osundairo, whom have both had minor roles on Empire. Hours later, they were released from custody without being charged.
“The events of the past few weeks have been incredibly emotional for all of us. Jussie has been an important member of our Empire family for the past five years and we care about him deeply,” said the statement from producers Lee Daniels, Danny Strong, Brett Mahoney, Brian Grazer, Sanaa Hamri, Francie Calfo and Dennis Hammer. “While these allegations are very disturbing, we are placing our trust in the legal system as the process plays out. We are also aware of the effects of this process on the cast and crew members who work on our show and to avoid further disruption on set, we have decided to remove the role of ‘Jamal’ from the final two episodes of the season.”
Season 5 of Empire returns March 13 at 8 p.m. on Fox.
#NewMusic from Rahsaan Patterson “Sent From Heaven” + Announces Upcoming Album “Heroes & Gods”
Rahsaan Patterson shares the exciting news that his new album “Heroes and Gods” will be released in the coming months. He also delivers the soulful first single “Sent from Heaven”. Patterson adds about the song:
“In creating ‘Sent From Heaven,’ I was reminded of how I have been schooled by all the greats and how grateful I am to have been schooled by them. Some songs might have a melody but how many will truly resonate with us 40 years later? As a songwriter and artist, it is important to insert that part of my creativity.”
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He has signed with Shanachie Entertainment to release the new album “Heroes and Gods” on May 17th, 2019. Stay tuned for more details about the upcoming album!
#HipHopNews: LIL UZI VERT Says He’s Still Done With Music, Wants To Release Old Songs
On Tuesday night Lil Uzi Vert treated fans to some unreleased music on his Instagram Live, much to their enjoyment. However, the song is very old according to the Philadelphia rapper.
After previewing the track, Uzi informed fans on his IG Live that he’s still not recording any new music, but that he does have a stash of old songs that he wouldn’t mind releasing to the public.
"But I wish they let me feed y'all, they let me just...tell me to come on, tell them me to come on," he said. "Tell them to come on let me feed y'all with the old stuff."
"I don't music no more but y'all can have this old stuff," he continued. "I mean it's gonna be new to y'all, I mean, y'all gonna say it's new shit."
Before signing off his IG Live, Uzi told his viewers that he still in control of what he wants to do musically.
"I still do what I want and we are rocking," he said.
Lil Uzi Vert is only two months into his self-imposed retirement. The 24-year-old rapper made the surprise announcement on Instagram back in January.
“I wanna take the time out to say I thank each and every one of my supporters but I’m done with music,” he wrote with a photo of his Gucci socks on his Instagram story. “I deleted everything. I wanna be normal...I wanna wake up in 2013.”
Uzi had initially planned to release his Eternal Atake album, but there's no word on if the project's release is postponed indefinitely.
Despite his retirement, Uzi joined Meek Mill during the New York stop of his Motivation Tour on Tuesday (March 12) and performed his hit song "XO Tour Lif3."
Lady Gaga: "Yeah, I'm pregnant...with my new album"
Lady Gaga once made the classic mistake of being decent at her job when she performed “Shallow” alongside Bradley Cooper at this year’s Oscars. Since then, she’s had to periodically assure the public that their heated duet was the product of artistry and not some brazen love affair. That did little to halt rumors, though, and chatter surrounding a potential pregnancy post-split with ex-fiance Christian Cariano soon surfaced. On Tuesday, Gaga took to Twitter to both quell baby rumors and remind us that she is still, you know, a very busy singer.
“Rumors I’m pregnant,” she asked. “Yeah, I’m pregnant with #LG6.” LG6 is in reference to Lady Gaga 6, her highly anticipated follow-up to 2016's Joanne.
Prior to this, the pop icon had to dismiss speculation of a romance between her and Cooper with an official eye roll on Jimmy Kimmel Live! soon after winning an Oscar for Best Original Song. “People saw love and, guess what, that’s what we wanted to you to see. This is a love song.”
Sorry, everyone. No baby or clandestine coupling here. Just silly things, like an active career.
Lori Loughlin Taken Into Custody After Elite College Admission Scheme Indictment
Lori Loughlin was taken into custody by the FBI in Los Angeles, California on Wednesday after reports broke that she, among dozens of others, would be charged for her participation in an elite college admission scheme.
Loughlin is slated to appear in federal court on conspiracy charges and will be booked at Los Angeles’ Metropolitan Detention Center. Federal agents accused the “Full House” actress and her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, of paying half-a-million dollars for their two daughters to be labeled as recruits to the USC crew team even though the students were not rowers.
Alongside Loughlin, actress Felicity Huffman is also accused of being involved in the scheme. Huffman was taken into custody on Tuesday and charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. The “Desperate Housewives” actress’ husband, actor William H. Macy, was spotted arriving at the courthouse shortly thereafter. Huffman was released on $250,000 bail.
Alongside Loughlin, actress Felicity Huffman is also involved in the scheme.
The FBI has called the alleged scheme a “nationwide conspiracy” as it included parents paying for their children to cheat on tests and apply to elite schools posing as student athletes, despite not having the skill sets desired by said schools.
In addition to Loughlin and Huffman, the other individuals indicted include CEOs of private and public companies, real estate professionals, fashion designers, and top college coaches. The indictment indicates that 33 parents, alongside the aforementioned coaches and administrators, allegedly paid up to $6 million in bribes to ensure that their children were accepted into their desired schools.
Missy Elliott To Receive Honorary Degree From Berklee College Of Music
In the two months since her induction into the 2019 Songwriters Hall of Fame, the legendary artist and producer has managed to rack up another first — receiving an honorary doctorate degree from Berklee College of Music.
Missy will become the first female rapper in history to ever receive an honorary doctorate from the esteemed institution. The honor, only given to a select few individuals, is definitely a humbling moment for Missy, who reacted to the news of her forthcoming degree on Twitter. "I am soooooo HUMBLED!🙏🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾," she wrote on Tuesday (March 12).
Missy, along with Justin Timberlake and Alex Lacamoire, will be recognized for their "achievements and influences in music," per a press release from Berklee. The music college's president, Roger H. Brown, will present the degrees to the three recipients on May 11 in the Aggains Arena at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. Berklee's press release also announced that students will pay tribute to the honorees by performing a collection of their songs.
As previously reported, Missy — who has written songs for some of the biggest names in music, including Beyonce and Whitney Houston — became the first female rapper to been nominated for the 2019 Songwriters Hall of Fame back in November. In January she became the first female rapper to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, and only the third rapper to enter it, joining recent inductees Jermaine Dupri and Jay-Z.
FINALLY The US grounds The Boeing 737 Max planes, citing links between 2 fatal crashes
US issues order grounding all Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 jets
The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday grounded all Boeing 737 Max jets in the U.S., citing new evidence that showed similarities between two fatal crashes of the popular planes that have killed 346 people in less than five months.
The move marks a stunning turnaround for the U.S., which has stood by the American-made aircraft as dozens of countries around the world ground the planes.
The crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on Sunday came less than five months after a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max 8 plunged into the Java Sea minutes into the flight, killing all 189 people on board. Both planes were new, delivered from Boeing just months before their doomed flights.
President Donald Trump earlier said he was ordering the planes to be taken out of service. Trump said he came to the decision after speaking with Boeing’s CEO, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and the acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration, Daniel Elwell.
“They are all in agreement with the action. Any plane currently in the air will go to its destination and thereafter be grounded until further notice,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday.
The grounding will remain in effect pending further investigation, including examination of information from the aircraft’s flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders. An FAA team is in Ethiopia assisting the NTSB as parties to the investigation of the Flight 302 accident. The agency will continue to investigate. ”
New evidence shows the plane’s movement was similar to the October crash, the FAA’s Elwell told reporters on a call Wednesday.
“It became clear the track was very close and behaved similarly to the Lion Air flight,” Elwell told reporters on a call Wednesday. “My hope is the FAA, the carriers, the manufacturers and all parties will work very hard to make this grounding as short as possible so that these airplanes can get back up in the sky.”
Shares of Boeing slipped by more than 2 percent after Trump’s announcement, but closed up 0.5 percent at $377.14.
Boeing said it recommended taking the 737 Max planes out of service out of an “abundance of caution” after talking with U.S. aviation regulators.
“On behalf of the entire Boeing team, we extend our deepest sympathies to the families and loved ones of those who have lost their lives in these two tragic accidents,” CEO Dennis Muilenburg said in a statement. “We are doing everything we can to understand the cause of the accidents in partnership with the investigators, deploy safety enhancements and help ensure this does not happen again.”
Of the more than 370 Boeing 737 Max jets in global fleets, 74 are flown by U.S. airlines, according to the FAA. Those include United Airlines, Southwest Airlines and American Airlines. Southwest Airlines’ fell by about 1 percent while Delta was about flat.
Trump said, “the safety of the American people, and all people, is our paramount concern. Our hearts go out to all of those who lost loved ones, to their friends, to their families [in both crashes] ... it’s a terrible, terrible thing.”
He called Boeing an “incredible company.”
“Hopefully they will very quickly come up with an answer, but until they do the planes are grounded,” Trump added.
Boeing investors have already lost $26.6 billion in the first two trading days this week with shares sliding 11 percent from $422.54 Friday to $375.41 at Tuesday’s close. The company’s market value fell from $238.7 billion on Friday to $212.1 billion by the end of Tuesday.
It is very uncommon, but not unprecedented, for the FAA to ground all jets of a certain type. In 2013, the agency ordered the then-new Boeing 787 Dreamliners grounded because of lithium-ion battery malfunctions. (They were flying again about three months later.) However, in that case, European regulators and other airlines followed the FAA’s lead. With the Boeing 737 Max planes, the U.S. grew increasingly isolated as country after country decided to ground the jets.
The turnaround by the FAA could suggest that federal officials may have obtained new information from the doomed Ethiopian Airlines plane that went down Sunday. Investigators are analyzing the so-called black boxes that were recovered from the site and contain flight data and voice recordings from the cockpit. They’ll likely be sent to Europe Wednesday night for analysis, agency officials said.
Lawmakers and labor unions representing flight attendants urged airlines and the government to ground the planes. Countries from India to Italy had decided to take the planes out of service, unnerving travelers and putting airlines in the tough position of alienating customers and defending the safety of the plane.
Some airlines like United and Southwest loosened some of their ticket change fees for flyers nervous about traveling on the plane.
Jose Canseco's Ex-Wife Speaks Out On Alex Rodriguez Cheating Rumors
Jessica Canseco just set the record straight — she is NOT having an affair with Alex Rodriguez.
Despite her ex-husband Jose Canseco's claims, the former reality star is just friends with A-Rod and she has no plans to interfere with his relationship. "Those false accusations Jose is making are not true!🖐🏻," she wrote on Twitter Tuesday (March 11). "I have known Alex for many years and haven’t even seen him for over 5. I certainly did not sleep with him. I am friendly with both him and Jennifer [Lopez]. As for Jose he can keep playing with his Alien friends😂🤦♀️."
"In fact I don’t even get on twitter had to download app again and don’t watch tv and had no idea any of this was going on," Jessica added. "Last time I saw Alex he was with Torrie and I brought my boyfriend over for dinner. We are just friends my god🤷♀️🤦♀️."
As previously reported, hours after J.Lo and A-Rod announced their engagement, Jose accused Alex of cheating on his new fiancée. "Watching World of Dance watching J.Lo text Alex Rodriguez little does she know that he is cheating on her with my ex-wife Jessica [Cancesco] poor girl she has no idea who he really is," Jose wrote on Twitter Sunday (March 11). "I was there a few months back with her when he called her on her phone.
The shamed former baseball player, who admittedly used performance-enhancing drugs while playing the game, didn't end his Twitter rant there. Jose then proceeded to challenge A-Rod to a fight. "Alex Rodriguez stop being a piece of sh*t stop cheating on Jennifer Lopez," he wrote, adding "I challenge you to a boxing match or an MMA match anytime you want."
While Jose offered no proof to back up his claims, he asked that Jennifer contact him to hear the "truth."
"@JLo if you want the truth about Alex Rodriguez call me 702-374-3735," he continued before saying he was willing to "take a polygraph to prove that what I'm saying about Alex Rodriguez is 100% accurate."
Alex and Jennifer, who have been dating since February 2017, never addressed the cheating rumors. Instead the engaged couple amped up the lovey-dovey posts from their tropical vacation in Baker's Bay in Great Guana Cay.
Facebook And Instagram Are having Global Outages they have been Reported!
Update Facebook has tweeted that, while the company continues to work on the issue, it confirms the outage was “not related to a DDoS attack,” or distributed denial of service attack.
Instagram and Facebook are experiencing at least partial outages around the world. “We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps,” Facebook tweeted Wednesday, pledging “We’re working to resolve the issue as soon a possible.”
Some users apparently were able to access the platforms but could not send or receive messages or post new content.
Facebook is keeping users update via its social media pages, saying “the issue is not related to a DDoS attack.”
DownDetector, a website that tracks outages, indicates that Facebook is down mainly in parts of New England, Texas, Seattle, California, Washington, Latin America, the UK, India, and the Philippines. Commenters on the DownDetector site report outages in Florida and Minnesota as well.
Reports of problems with Facebook’s WhatsApp also have been reported.
Pastor John Gray Addresses ‘Emotional Affair’ ‘I Did Not Sleep with Anyone, There’s No Baby:’ Others seem to think otherwise!
When 2019 rang in, most people probably were just trying to deal with the fact that a new year had arrived, but Pastor John Gray, of Relentless Church in Greenville, S.C., was dealing with a scandal.
In January a video surfaced of Gray admitting to his congregation that he let a woman get too close when he and his wife Aventer Gray were near divorce. The pastor also admitted that he was “failing as a husband.”
“I started listening to the wrong voices and let some people get too close. She found out, and she set it off, just like a good wife should,” he explained.
What added another level of scandal to his story was that in late 2018 Gray bought his wife a $200,000 Lamborghini, and there was speculation that the gift was to make up for the other woman and for allegedly getting her pregnant.
On Monday, March 11, the Grays appeared on an episode of “The Real,” and co-host Adrienne Bailon asked the pastor flat-out if he had had an affair.
“The answer is no. I didn’t,” he said. “Over a year ago, my wife and I were in a very difficult place in our marriage, and in that time I began to converse with someone other than a counselor, other than a pastoral leader … And I was even in the presence of that person one time.”
“I did not sleep with anyone, there’s no baby, there’s none of that,” the pastor added. “Sharing things about my marriage, outside of my wife and outside of trusted counselors is an emotional affair. It’s wrong, and I take responsibility for that. But I will not take responsibility for that which I did not do.”
A YouTube clip of the episode generated various responses from people who thought Gray was lying.
“Their body language says they’re being dishonest. They made more eye contact with the ceiling,” one person commented.
“Tbh he still had an emotional affair — and he met up with this mystery women? Hmmm…it sounds sketchy,” another wrote.
One commenter just said: “No hate, but something about this couple don’t sit right with me.”
Another wrote: “Cringe Worthy Damage Control” about the couple’s visit.
Then there were some who told the Grays’ critics to leave them alone, because whatever occurred is their business alone.
“I feel like this not my pastor, this not my marriage, it’s not my business 🤷🏾♀️,” one person commented.
And based on an Instagram post by Aventer Gray, it seems she was tired of the talk surrounding her marriage and chose to go on “The Real” to set the record straight.
“Everyone else has had their moment to post what they think they know,” she wrote on Monday before her visit aired. “We share from our heart and clarify the REAL.”
Diddy Pays Tribute to Craig Mack on One-Year Anniversary of His Death: ‘We Love and Miss You’
March 12, 2019, marked the one-year anniversary of Craig Mack‘s death, which Sean “Diddy” Combs acknowledged on Instagram.
Combs signed the New York rapper in the early ’90s and posted a photo of Mack in a red vest, blue California Angels hat and a gold rope chain.
Sean “Diddy Combs acknowledged the one-year anniversary of Craig Mack’s death
“We love you and miss you Craig. BAD BOY 4 LIFE 🙏🏿🙏🏿,” he wrote on Tuesday.
Mack died of heart failure at age 47 in Walterboro, South Carolina, where he was a member of Overcomer Ministry. Many have referred to that church as a cult, and the minister, Ralph Gordon Stair, was arrested on sexual assault charges in December 2017.
A documentary on Mack’s life is on the way called “When God Comes,” which started shooting right before he died, and it’ll mainly be about his involvement with Stair.
Alvin Toney, Mack’s former music producer and longtime friend, also produced the documentary and said the late rapper wasn’t afraid of death. He also said Mack was taken advantage of by Stair.
“He was ready to die,” Toney said in an interview with the New York Daily News. “If you’re going through a lot of things, and things aren’t going your way, it’s easy for somebody to maneuver your mind. You hear somebody say a certain thing and you think that’s the way to go. I think that’s why Craig fell into that.”
Reportedly, Mack heard Stair on the radio at the same time he was contemplating using a gun on someone who had wronged him in the music business.
Combs’ tribute to Mack drew over 71,000 likes in under 24 hours, and it’s the second time in days he celebrated one of his late artists.
That’s because Saturday, March 9, marked the 22nd anniversary of The Notorious B.I.G.‘s death, and Combs posted three tribute photos and called him “The greatest rapper of all time.”
Tisha Campbell-Martin Tapped To Co-Star in Fox’s New Comedy “Geniuses”
Former “Martin” and “My Wife and Kids” star Tisha Campbell-Martin is taking her talents back to the small screen for a new role in Fox’s blue-collar comedy, “Geniuses.”
According to Deadline, Martin has been tapped to co-star alongside Maggie Lawson and Jason Biggs for the new comedy pilot from “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” producer, Lon Zimmet.
Directed by Jonathan Judge, the show follows a blue-collar couple who are trying to make it in South Jersey – all while raising four kids, three of whom are certified geniuses. With Lawson and Biggs taking on the roles of the Suburban couple, Cay and Mike, Martin is set to play Rita, a mother of three and Cay’s closet friend at work.
According to Variety, “Geniuses” is one of six comedies in the works at Fox for the 2019-20 season. Will you be tuning in?
Paul Manafort Indicted by NY Prosecutors Minutes After Federal Sentencing
Less than a week after Paul Manafort was sentenced to 47 months in prison over a financial fraud conviction, the former campaign chairman to Donald Trump was sentenced to an additional 43 months for conspiracy. Minutes after that, he was indicted by NY prosecutors on 16 charges related to mortgage fraud, conspiracy and falsifying business records.
In the second sentencing on charges brought by special counsel, Robert S. Mueller, federal judge Amy Berman Jackson handed down a 60-month prison sentence on one criminal conspiracy counts, 30 of which will be served concurrently with his previous sentence. On the second criminal count of conspiracy, Jackson ordered Manafort to 13 months of consecutive prison time, for a total of seven-and-a-half years behind bars.
“I am sorry for what I have done and for all the activities that have gotten us here today,” Manafort said ahead of his sentencing. “I will be 70 years old in a few weeks. My wife is 66. She needs me. I need her. I ask you to think of this and our need for each other.”
However, Jackson was not moved by Manafort’s public apology. Although she gave credit to Manafort for taking responsibility for his actions, she stood by her February ruling in saying Manafort intentionally lied to prosecutors.
“Saying I’m sorry I got caught is not an inspiring plea for leniency,” Jackson said. “‘A significant portion’ of Manafort’s career ‘ was spent gaming the system’” she added, as she maintained that her decision was “not or can not be a revision of a sentence that is imposed by another court,” in reference to Manafort’s Virginia sentencing.
In the meantime, a spokesperson for Manafort has yet to comment on the New York indictment.
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