The odds for release from jail pending his trial don't look good for Manafort.
He has been appealing Judge Amy Berman Jackson's decision to revoke his bail and put him in jail pending his September trial in WA DC.
On Thursday, a 3-judge panel made an interim decision NOT to grant him an early release. He has to wait for the panel to make its final decision, whenever that will be. (If they thought it was likely he'd win, they probably would have let him out.)
And since he complained about being too far from his lawyers in Alexandria, Judge Ellis (the one running his July trial) ordered him to be moved out of his cushy digs, where he had the VIP treatment, to a more ordinary jail in Alexandria.
Tough luck, Manafort! Might as well get used to it. As Judge Ellis said, that Alexandria jail has done a good job taking care of all kinds of inmates -- including terrorists and traitors.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/12/manafort-appeals-court-denies-release-mueller-probe-716695
A federal appeals court has turned down former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s request for immediate release from jail in advance of two federal criminal trials he is facing.
A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order Thursday afternoon denying a request to let him out as the court continues to consider his appeal of a district court judge’s order last month revoking the house arrest he’d been under since October.
The D.C. Circuit’s one-page order provided little explanation for the ruling. “The court declines to exercise its authority under [a federal court rule] because appellant has not shown that immediate relief before resolution of his expedited appeal is warranted,” the court said.
The decision does not dispose of Manafort’s appeal or foreclose his eventual release, but it suggests it’s unlikely he’ll succeed in springing himself from jail. He’s currently set for trial on bank and tax fraud charges in an Alexandria, Virginia, federal court starting July 25. Another trial on charges of money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent is set to follow in Washington on Sept. 17.
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