- Title: Authorities release arrest photo for former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort
- Date: 12th July 2018
- Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (DECEMBER 11, 2017) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** MANAFORT AND HIS ATTORNEYS ARRIVING AT THE COURTHOUSE WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 2, 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF MANAFORT, WALKING INTO COURT (3 SHOTS)
- Embargoed: 26th July 2018 18:17
- Keywords: Paul Manafort Russia Robert Mueller Donald Trump campaign
- Location: ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA/CLEVELAND, OHIO, WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES
- City: ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA/CLEVELAND, OHIO, WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
- Topics: Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA0028OG1OW7
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort may face evidence at trial about alleged wrongdoing in the 1980s and lost a bid to stay at a jail where he said he was being treated like a "VIP," court papers on Wednesday (July 12) showed.
The developments came as Manafort gets closer to two trials where he will defend himself against a number of charges ranging from bank fraud to failing to register as a foreign agent for lobbying work for pro-Russia politicians in Ukraine.
Manafort's prosecution arose out of U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between Russia and Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. One trial is set for July 25 in Alexandria, Virginia, and the second case in Washington, D.C., has a Sept. 17 trial date.
Judge T.S. Ellis, who is overseeing the Alexandria case, ordered a hearing for Tuesday (July 17) to weigh motions by Manafort to move the first trial to a more Trump-friendly area of Virginia and to postpone it until after the Washington trial was done.
In a filing to Ellis on Wednesday, Mueller's prosecutors laid out their case for no delay. Contrary to Manafort's assertions, the prosecutors argued that his jail, while located two hours from Washington, had provided him with ample access to his lawyers and had not hindered his preparation for trial.
Far from being restrictive, prosecutors said Manafort had been given a personal telephone in his cell, which he used for more than 300 calls with attorneys and others over the past three weeks, and found a workaround to the jail's ban on email.
Prosecutors also cited taped phone calls from prison in which Manafort remarked that he was being treated like a "VIP" and had access to "all my files like I would at home."
Manafort was also afforded his own bathroom, shower and workspace, according to the court filing by Mueller's office.
On Tuesday, Judge T.S. Ellis sought to address Manafort's complaint about the remoteness of the jail by ordering him moved from the current facility in Warsaw, Virginia, to a jail in Alexandria closer to his attorneys and his home.
Manafort responded by asking that he be allowed to stay in Warsaw, citing concerns about safety and "the challenges he will face in adjusting to a new place of confinement" two weeks before trial. - Copyright Holder: FILE REUTERS (CAN SELL)
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