There are your routine sentencing memos and then there are the no-holds-barred sentencing memos. The one filed by special counsel Robert Mueller's office for Paul Manafort in Washington on Friday is the latter. In it, prosecutors beseech the judge to ignore the sob story, forget about leniency and drop the hammer on a defendant whose conduct been stunningly egregious.

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