Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former 2016 campaign manager, was released from prison on Wednesday and will serve his seven-year prison sentence at home to protect himself from the COVID-19 outbreak.
Kevin Downing, Manafort’s attorney, told CBS News that the higher-ups at the Bureau of Prisons and the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Loretto, where Manafort was imprisoned, granted the former campaign official’s request to serve his sentence at home amid the pandemic.
Manfort was handed his prison sentence last year after being found guilty for bank and tax fraud.
Former attorney Michael Cohen, another one of Trump’s associates who has been sentenced to prison, will also spend the remainder of his three-year sentence at home due to the virus.
Well, it’s a good thing he’s not a flight risk or doesn’t have any illicit foreign contacts.
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Next he’ll be granted 10 hours a day to commute to and from a job. Then he’ll be lobbying or whatever, getting immersed in politics. In a month he’ll be a Trump campaign adviser.
Just in time to join Trump’s re-election campaign!
Wonder if this is setting a President Precedent for Donnie, when he enters Federal hospitality in 2021?
A traitor gets released to home imprisonment while low-risk pot dealers are still behind bars during the pandemic.