Requesting Pretrial Release, Manafort Lawyers Say He's Being Held In Solitary

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By Allegra Kirkland | July 6, 2018 2:00 pm

To ensure his safety, Paul Manafort is being held in solitary confinement at a Virginia jail for “at least 23 hours a day,” his attorneys claimed in Thursday court filings appealing his pretrial detention. The attorneys argued that Manafort’s confinement at Warsaw, Virginia’s Northern Neck Regional Jail made it “effectively impossible” for him to prepare for his two separate upcoming criminal trials.

The former Trump campaign chairman’s bail was revoked in mid-June after he allegedly engaged in witness tampering while confined to house arrest. Manafort allegedly attempted to communicate with former business partners who helped coordinate his shady lobbying work in the Ukraine. A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., convened by special counsel Robert Mueller, subsequently indicted Manafort for the alleged witness tampering. He already faced charges including failure to disclose foreign lobbying, money laundering, bank fraud and tax fraud.

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Appealing that ruling in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Manafort’s lawyers said that Mueller’s team failed to provide sufficient evidence that their client engaged in obstruction of justice. His communications with his former business partners, they said, “were extremely limited.”

In its own Thursday filing, Mueller’s team opposed Manafort’s request for the “extraordinary relief” he seeks. Prosecutors noted that both they and the district court have “taken steps to minimize the impact” on Manafort’s trial preparation, offering to work with his attorneys on requests to house him in a more accessible facility. Mueller also said these difficulties were common to all “defendants incarcerated pending trial.”



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[Mc Mike]

1. We'd stick you in general population, but you might not like that very much, Paulie.

[redstatebluegirl]

2. I'm sure he doesn't like the fabric they use on the orange jumpsuits either.

They don't feel like his $10,000 handmade italian suits. Poor baby....

[Xipe Totec]

3. It's not solitary; it's the VIP deluxe privacy package. nt

[Wwcd]

7. Lol. He's got his own room too. Why is he whining?

[forgotmylogin]

4. Too bad he violated his bail terms.

I'm sure lots of criminals need time to do stuff that isn't conducive to the prison environment. I'm sure lots of children that are currently locked up would like to do things that don't involve being confined in a chain-link enclosure for 22 hours a day. Just because Manafort is white and rich doesn't make him in any way "extraordinary". He should have thought about the difficulty of preparing his upcoming trials while he was on house arrest before meddling with the witnesses in his case.

[C_U_L8R]

5. If he wants company so bad...

let him mingle with the rest of the prisoners.

[Hugin]

21. or give him a cell mate.

I have a couple in mind.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. "His communications with his former business partners, they said, "were extremely limited." "

Yes, because he was trying to make initial contact so they could presumably concoct a coverup. It was through 3rd parties to try to escape scrutiny.

But if he had succeeded, it wouldn't have been so limited.

[Phoenix61]

8. Bwaaa

Too funny. Guess he should have thought about all those things before he broke the terms of his bail. He just thought house arrest was confining.

[get the red out]

9. Can't muster up any pity for him

None at all.

[left-of-center2012]

10. Put him in the general population

[dawnie51]

11. The balls on this guy....

this cross between Paul Sorvino and Robert Mitchum, but without their talent. Talk about an entitled asshole.

[AZ8theist]

12. You can get out tomorrow if you want..

Plead guilty and turn states evidence against the traitor in the WH.
Simple.

[NCjack]

14. He needs to put his clothes back on and stop playing with himself. Until he

shows that he can behave in jail, he has to stay in solitary ("stir&quot for his own safety.

[WhiteTara]

15. But is he being tortured like Magnitsky?

Wimp womp you traitor.

[SamKnause]

16. I don't give a flying fuck if he is in solitary confinement.

It is time for white collar criminals to get the same treatment as everybody else.

You either support our penal system, or you don't.

I don't.

It is cruel and ineffective.

Our penal system is barbaric !!!!!!!!!

Enjoy your rehabilitation.

[Nash Teeth]

17. Womp womp, traitor.

[iluvtennis]

18. womp, womp.

[SunSeeker]

19. I'm sure his cell is a lot nicer than the cages Trump put immigrant babies in.

[olddad56]

20. so are Mexican children whose parents committed a misdemeanor, Cry me river Paul.