BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been indicted in New York on state charges, seen as a strategy for preventing a potential presidential pardon. An indictment unsealed Wednesday in Manhattan accuses the 69-year-old Manafort of conducting a yearlong residential mortgage fraud scheme that netted millions of dollars. Trump has repeatedly defended Manafort in other cases and floated the idea of granting a pardon, but would not be able to do so in a state case. The judge today sentenced Manafort to an additional three and a half years of prison as she questioned his remorse and criticized him for his crimes and years of lies. The sentence is on top of the roughly four-year prison sentence Manafort received last week in a separate criminal case in Virginia.