Trump's ex-campaign manager may serve remaining custody at home

Trump brought Manafort to his campaign team in March 2016 and made him the leader in June. In August of that year, however, he had to leave again.

Washington (dpa) - Former President Donald Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort, can serve his remaining prison sentence for the corona pandemic, according to media reports, at home.

Several US media, including the Washington Post and CNN, said Wednesday, citing Manafort's lawyers that he had been granted coronary fears of previous medical conditions to serve his sentence instead of under house arrest instead of in prison .

Courts in the U.S. capital Washington and the state of Virginia had sentenced Manafort to a total of seven and a half years in prison in March 2019. Manafort was found guilty of, among other things, tax evasion and bank fraud.

Manafort has worked as a lobbyist and political advisor for decades, earning a dubious reputation. His clients included dictators and regimes in Africa, Asia and South America. For several years he lobbied for the then Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.

Trump brought Manafort to his campaign team in March 2016 and made him the leader in June. In August of that year, however, he had to leave again. The background to this was his financial involvement in Ukraine.

"Washington Post" report

CNN report