Gov. Andrew Cuomo signs bill allowing people granted presidential pardons to face charges in New York
by Zachary Halaschak
| October 16, 2019 01:50 PM
Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law designed to allow the state to press charges against people who have received a presidential pardon.
The bill, which was passed by the legislature in May, was drafted after reports surfaced that President Trump was considering a presidential pardon for Paul Manafort, his former campaign manager. Trump’s business headquarters and his campaign headquarters are also located in New York.
Manafort, 70, is serving a prison sentence for a number of federal charges that came from former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation. In addition to the federal charges, he was indicted on state mortgage fraud charges.
The bill ends the so-called “double jeopardy loophole†that prevents state prosecution for crimes that the federal government has already tried them for.
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