1. 47 months.

That was the sentence meted out to Paul Manafort for financial fraud at a federal court in Alexandria, Va., in a hearing that stretched past 7 p.m. Eastern.

The judge, T.S. Ellis III, said that 19 to 24 years, the recommended sentence, would be “excessive” for a man who’d lived an “otherwise blameless life.” Above, Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, in February 2018. In court today, he was dressed in a green prison jumpsuit and sat in a wheelchair.

Separately, Michael Cohen, the president’s former lawyer and fixer, sued the Trump Organization, saying it refused to pay him $1.9 million in legal fees after he began cooperating with prosecutors.