Just read stuff about the methods he was using.
Shows it was intentional and evasive. And that his intent was criminal. So I agree. He's not the innocent guy. He's the hard-ass villain. And he is going to end up in jail for a long time.
Trump, of course, is dangling a pardon via Giuliani. But if I am Manafort, I am thinking Trump isn't going to be in place to give him one. All of the different dominoes are dropping.
Manafort was likely Putin's link in the chain of collusion (aka the witchhunt where there's an actual coven of them in play).