Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was released from prison to home confinement as part of an effort to protect inmates from the coronavirus, according to his lawyer, Kevin Downing.
Manafort, 71, left a low-security prison in Loretto, Pennsylvania, and headed to his home in northern Virginia after requesting that the Bureau of Prisons release him for the remainder of his 7-1/2–year sentence. Since late March, at least 2,471 of 169,000 federal inmates have been released to home confinement.
Manafort’s wife and another family member picked him up at 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
“He’s going home,” Downing said. “He’s doing OK. He didn’t get the virus, so that’s good.”
Manafort was convicted of financial crimes and illegal lobbying. His release came six days after Attorney General William Barr moved to dismiss the prosecution of President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents before deciding to try to withdraw his plea. A federal judge in Washington said Tuesday he would accept friend-of-the-court briefs in response to the dismissal request from Barr’s Justice Department.
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