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Manafort released to home confinement due to coronavirus concerns
By Justine Coleman - 05/13/20 08:22 AM EDT
President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was released from prison on Wednesday to serve the rest of his sentence at home because of worries about the coronavirus pandemic, his lawyer told CBS News.
Kevin Downing told the network that his client was picked up by two family members, including Manafort's wife, at the low-security LCI Loretto facility in central Pennsylvania.
Manafort was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for crimes uncovered during former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into allected Trump campaign connections to Russia. He was found guilty of tax fraud and conspiracy, sentenced in 2019 and originally expected to be released in 2024.
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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/497495-manafort-released-to-home-confinement-due-to-coronavirus-concerns