Manafort released to home confinement

[KewlKat]

Source: CBS News

Manafort released due to COVID 19

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was transferred Wednesday to home confinement after he requested release because of the threat COVID-19 poses to his health, his lawyer, Kevin Downing, confirmed to CBS News.

CBS News was told that early Wednesday morning two family members including his wife picked up Manafort at LCI Loretto, the low-security federal prison in Pennsylvania where he has been serving his term.

In March 2019, Manafort was sentenced to a total of 90 months — or 7.5 years — in two separate cases involving tax and bank fraud and related charges.


Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paul-manafort-granted-home-confinement-due-to-coronavirus-threat-in-prison/

[KewlKat]

1. WHAT A CROCK...first Flynn, now manafort...Stone next?

[dewsgirl]

4. Looks that way.😔

[ChiTownDenny]

18. And Cohen denied.

Banana Republic in all its glory!

[dewsgirl]

20. Unfortunately.😔

[riversedge]

31. I bet Mueller is having a sad day--all his work and now no Justice-Trumps pals get out of jail.

[rurallib]

2. what ever happened to the "You do the crime, you do the time" Republicans?

[KewlKat]

5. Not this era of rethugs...the plot continues...rewarded for illegal behavior.

[machoneman]

3. Don't like it but...better he not die of the virus. Instead, his ultimate return to prison...

is a better punishment thna even death. Unless he get his pardon.

[KewlKat]

6. What makes you hunk he'll return to prison? COVID is with us until we get a vaccine.

[diva77]

32. According to MSNBC (sorry I don't have link) no covid-19 cases at that prison

K&R for exposure

[Taraman]

7. Maybe he can do a little business while he's home?

Talk to Vlad, Derispaska and his Ukrainian and Russian pals about his debt problems?

Gotta pay the rent.

[KewlKat]

10. Th con's Re-election Campaign perhaps...new consultant?

Orange anu$ wants Flynn back..why not manafort as well?

[Botany]

8. The man sold out his country by giving the Russians advanced data analytics so they could micro -

target their efforts to steal the election from Hillary and install Trump into the White Hous. So now we are looking @
100,000 dead, 1.5 million cases of C-19, and a world wide great depression and he gets to go home because of a
disease that is running wild across America that he is in part responsible for?

He should be in the supermax in Colorado or given a chair, a blindfold, and some straw bales behind him. Or maybe
Paul could just die of C-19 in prison. Manafort sold out America and now we are paying the price.

[Taraman]

9. "General" Flynn is a peach, too

[KewlKat]

11. Conman will bring him back soon...

[C_U_L8R]

12. Doesn't NY State have charges against him too?

Tax evasion and other stuff?

[KewlKat]

13. I think so. Good point, but would they charge him now?

[Firestorm49]

14. They probably would have released Epstein if he hadn't been Barred.

[Evolve Dammit]

15. Rich, white male privilege. Christ he's only been in less than a year.

[KewlKat]

16. And in a low level prison at that

[Evolve Dammit]

22. Like a "professional courtesy"? Yeah, you're rich and famous, we'll make your stay the best we can

[Kid Berwyn]

17. So. How did the GOP platform get changed to support Russia?

So. How did Russia get detailed voter data?

Etc. etc. etc. until justice.

[iluvtennis]

19. This is just SHAMEFUL. It's so that trump can claim at campaign time that none of his folks

were ever locked up as result of Mueller investigation. I so despise all of the piece of shit orange shithole.

[iluvtennis]

21. If it's safe for people to return to work & kids to go to school, Manafort is safe in prison.

Link to tweet

[Bayard]

23. Then why can't all prisoners demand this action?

They are all in danger because of the threat COVID-19 poses to their health.

[KPN]

24. What a frigging sick nation we are living in

right now. Our malady is far greater than COVID-19.

[chowder66]

25. Then they should release Leonard Peltier who has diabetes and other health issues. nt

[niyad]

28. Yes!!

[seta1950]

26. CNN reported 4/10/2020

Cohen would be released to home confinement , due to pandemic.

[KewlKat]

29. It was withdrawn. Maybe it's back on?

[niyad]

27. Gee, shouldn't that mean that every prisoner in the country should be released?

[KewlKat]

30. Not sure what the criteria is, aside from in this case political influence...he was in

A pretty nice place.