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Judge again denies bail for Manafort
Source: Politico
Judge again denies bail for Manafort
However, the court gives the former Trump campaign chair a list of assets that could secure his release from house arrest.
By JOSH GERSTEIN 04/09/2018 11:09 AM EDT
A judge handling one of the criminal cases against Paul Manafort has again denied bail to the former Trump campaign chairman, but this time the court gave Manafort what could amount to a financial road map to securing his release.
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said in an order Monday that Manafort had again fallen short in the latest of several attempts to assemble money, property and pledges to meet the $10 million bail amount she set in the money-laundering and unregistered foreign lobbying case brought against him in Washington by special counsel Robert Mueller.
The new order is the latest development in an unusually prolonged bail saga for the longtime political consultant, who has been under house arrest since his first court appearance in the case last October.
Jackson said she would not accept two properties Manafort has sought to propose as part of his bail package: a condo in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, and another property in New York City. The judge said the Alexandria property is not suitable because it was pledged to back a mortgage on Manafort's Long Island home. She said the New York property isn't an appropriate security because it is a focus of a separate bank-and-tax-fraud case Mueller's prosecutors filed against Manafort in Alexandria in February.
However, Jackson said other properties could make up a bail package for Manafort, including his Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, home and his condo in Trump Tower in New York. ...
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However, the court gives the former Trump campaign chair a list of assets that could secure his release from house arrest.
By JOSH GERSTEIN 04/09/2018 11:09 AM EDT
A judge handling one of the criminal cases against Paul Manafort has again denied bail to the former Trump campaign chairman, but this time the court gave Manafort what could amount to a financial road map to securing his release.
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said in an order Monday that Manafort had again fallen short in the latest of several attempts to assemble money, property and pledges to meet the $10 million bail amount she set in the money-laundering and unregistered foreign lobbying case brought against him in Washington by special counsel Robert Mueller.
The new order is the latest development in an unusually prolonged bail saga for the longtime political consultant, who has been under house arrest since his first court appearance in the case last October.
Jackson said she would not accept two properties Manafort has sought to propose as part of his bail package: a condo in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, and another property in New York City. The judge said the Alexandria property is not suitable because it was pledged to back a mortgage on Manafort's Long Island home. She said the New York property isn't an appropriate security because it is a focus of a separate bank-and-tax-fraud case Mueller's prosecutors filed against Manafort in Alexandria in February.
However, Jackson said other properties could make up a bail package for Manafort, including his Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, home and his condo in Trump Tower in New York. ...
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Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/09/paul-manafort-bail-denied-509650
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