Connecticut native Paul Manafort was sentenced Wednesday to about six years in prison over his past lobbying work for the Ukraine, concluding a dramatic case in which the former Trump campaign chairman was accused of tampering with witnesses and breaching a plea deal with the special counsel.

A portion of the sentence—30 months, or 2.5 years—from Judge Amy Berman Jackson will run concurrently to the punishment he received in the Eastern District of Virginia last week. Manafort, who turns 70 in April, will serve a total of 7.5 years in prison.

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