Manafort was released from FCI Loretto in central Pennsylvania early Wednesday morning, the two sources said.
President Trump's one-time campaign manager Paul Manafort arrives at Manhattan Supreme Court, June 27, 2019, for his arraignment on mortgage fraud charges.Manafort, 71, has been serving out his more than seven-year sentence for charges related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation in a federal correctional institution in central Pennsylvania. He was found guilty of tax fraud and conspiracy and was sentenced by a federal judge in March 2019.
While there are no known cases of coronavirus at FCI Loretto, sources have told ABC News that the prison was an old monastery, and due to the open configuration of the prison, would be devastated by the virus. Attorney General Bill Barr’s directive referenced in the letter encouraged the federal prison system to increase the use of home confinement for prisoners deemed in the “at risk” categories for coronavirus.
eff
This is complete bullshit and the reason that they state is even bigger bullshit.
What about Cohen?
Justice system is a broken in US, ppl in prison for marijuana possession longer than for murder. And now we have manaforte out of white collar prison to keep him from getting covid19, while others remain in prison. Disgusting.
Thank God, PaulManafort is home. What happened to him and how he was targeted over politics all in hopes of taken down realDonaldTrump is a true injustice. Lady justice was not blind. He was purposely targeted over BULLSHIT! We all know it was why I expect a full pardon for....
realDonaldTrump wins again. whiteprivilege MAGA
greta Finally something fair
Just another trump deal he wants all the crooks out to help with next cheating election . Crime boss gets what he wants Flynn Manafort who is next other then the Russians . Course they have help Moscow Mitch with his election
Just another example of the system is rigged to benefit privileged white males, including the judicial system so glaringly shown by Bill Barr In 🇺🇸, if you are a white male & breathing, you can become a billionaire & POTUS just like Trump or SiliconValley billionaires ie Musk
Why?
Great news! If they can let out hard criminals from jail they can also mercy to those with less offenses!
Paul Manafort and everyone else in prison could avoid potential COVID exposure - DON’T BREAK THE LAW DUMBASS🙄🙄😡
Are all trump associates eligible or just the ones who are involved in his 2016 Russian hijinks?
Yet they want to open everything up... what a crock of shit.
Naturally!
WHO UN NATO G7 G20 ICCT_TheHague DAVOS Seriously meanwhile innocent kids are locked in cages? I hope The Hague tríes this administration!!
What about ALL the other prisoners at that prison? They don't get 'special treatment?' I'd like to know.
American “just-us” is so pure.., and white.
First zcohen and Avenatti why not Manafort Stone.
all the charges will be thrown out because the FISA warrants used to start this investigation were illegal,therefore any other charges are nullified- earlier supreme court ruling on illegal warrants.
Finally! About time. Slime bag Cohen has been out of jail for weeks. Wonderful that Minafort has been released.
❤️
Why is it safe for CHILDREN to go back to public school but NOT safe for Manafort to be in a luxury “prison”...?
Why does that criminal get special privileges Justice for the rich only in America!
Ah the privilege...
Meanwhile Boston has pedophiles and drug dealers walking the streets what a f****** joke!!
What about prisoners who don’t have Manafort’s connections? Are they being released to serve their time at home too?
THEN RELEASE MICHAEL COHEN TOO!!!
needs a pardon .. once Nov is done
So Paul Manafort is released from prison and confined to house arrest! Isn’t that the same as what you and I are currently going through! Our government is F’ing us real good. When will it stop? November?!?!
White rich men's club strikes again! And the guy who stole a sixpack will never get out of jail.
Disgusting miscarriage of Justice. If you aren't letting everyone out, then Manafort shouldn't be released either.
He should’ve had to rot in prison. Being white, having $and having trumps back got him off. This sucks.
Yep-privileged elites, how bout some of the other prisoners be released to home confinement, you know just regular prisoners, not the rich white guy who happens to be trumps friend & lives in a sprawling mansion
How absolutely marvelous, all the crooks are going to get the band back together again. The Senate had the chance to do the right thing. They failed our country miserably. Now, it's going to get harder to save our democracy from the likes of evil men like Trump & his cronies.
TRUMP’S CRIMINAL FRIENDS ARE OUT!!!
He was released because evidence shows Obama set him up
Wonder who got him that sweetheart deal🤔
This is why trump has been trying to distract everyone
I kee seeing these headlines but no one is explaining why he gets released when there are so many others in prison who are also at risk? What is the legal justification for this?
Autocracy
adallos Now only vigilante justice can balance the scales. They really have no idea the chaos they’re uncorking when they destroy the Rule of Law. These violent delights have violent ends. Unfortunate. American society just got a lot less stable. This will have global consequences.
Outrageous
THIS IS WHY REPUBLICANS ARE TALKING ABOUT FLYNN AND OBAMA AND LYING ABOUT CONSPIRACIES THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN....THEY ARE DEFLECTING FROM THEIR COLOSSAL FAILURE TO PROTECT US FROM THIS VIRUS.
So A Criminal gets to go home But the Rest of US don’t have TESTS. Donald tells governors to keep the country open as numbers still increase as he, along with everyone in the WH, gets tested Every Day. Whose Safety are They Really worried about here?
This is some bullshit.
Gracie29526040 Been in prison longer than someone that commits a crime against a child.. our justice system needs an enema.
Now it's time to release Reality Winner, don't you think? She didn't do anything against OUR country! To the contrary, she tried to warn of Russian interference in the 2016 election and Republicans threw her in Prison! Free this woman NOW!
Jesus Christ, this makes me sick, how can republicans vote for people that let traitors out so easily.
white priviledge
I hope he still has to stfu.
corrupt to the core
Why? Why do white clear bitches get out but not regular criminals?
Boooo
So are they releasing nonviolent drug offenders and low level nonviolent petty theft charges
Nothing like house arrest in a multimillion dollar mansion
Good
Folks! Homey homey told you a long, long time ago that those members of trump’s ongoing criminal enterprise who are in legal jeopardy & thus able to drop dimes on him have sent him the following message: FREE US BY A DATE CERTAIN WELL BEFORE NOV. 3 OR DIMES WILL START DROPPING!
What about the OTHER incarcerated people who AREN'T white or rich
But ABC isn't covering BIDEN UNMASKED GEN FLYNN... NO CONVENIENT
OMGF!!!!
allthepresidentsmen is allthepresidentsdogs should be allPutinsMen
Nothing good will come from this.
It's about time. He never should have been jailed.
To good to die from it?
Wow king trump does it again
Home confinement? We’re all in home confinement!
Cohen, Flynn, Manafort... all guilty but free. Russia is psyched. MoreTreason
But Cohen was to be released and that was blocked?
Veganforlife111 No cases of the virus have been found in his prison yet he gets out. Did they let everybody out? This way they don’t have to pardon him they just let him go home and do whatever he wants. Heil Twitler 🖕🍄
Veganforlife111 COVID...the white mans get out of jail free card
AND SUDDENLY is healthy enough to take up jogging!!!
and Cohen's release blocked - I get it!
Wow, special consideration even for this convict. How unfair.
Insane!
You guys should be watching Fox, these lame news orgs aren’t even covering the bombshells that are dropping with the Obamagate. It will blow your mind, wake up people!!
Oh bull
But will the dirty scheister go back to finish out his sentence when we go back to 'normal'? He better!
He should have never.went to jail.
The system continues to work as designed KMBENSON SkylandCEO
But not Cohen? WTF
FreeRealityWinnerNOW
Meanwhile, the kid arrested for selling a few ounces of pot 5 years ago is still in jail... One thing Trump has done is highlight America’s deep inequities!
But not Reality Winner? What a farce! Trump has to go.
So he’s as free as we the People locked up in our homes at least he not a murder or rapist. The democrats ticket in 2020 Biden/Killary
So if/when there is an effective vaccine, will he be returned to prison for the completion of his sentence?
Well of course he is...this is so stupid ..he is rich and won’t do another day inside
It's so crazy how trump and his supporters are saying mission accomplished on covid. Yet manafort is being released bc of covid fears 🤔
I don't give it more than a year before he's involved or directing criminal activity again from his home confinement. People who spend decades of white collar crime don't just change because of a few months in jail.
Why are we letting people like this out of prison
Time to release Reality Winner
Manafort is a “sitting duck” now. Why? ”Stay away from these windows, THAT’S WHY!!!”
DEMORATS ARE RELEASING CRIMINALS FROM PRISON IN DEMORATS STATES OVER THE FEAR OF THE CORONA VIRUS MANAFORD WAS JAILED BACUSE OF THE CORUPT DEMORATS. SOON HE WILL BE FREED LIKE MICHAEL FLYNN
Once again, it shows how we have degenerated to a BananaRepublic.
GMA No cannot believe it. There are prisoners in prison where the virus is running rampant! What of them LIFE IS NOT FAIR, especially if your not connected.
Unbelievable. Remember this corrupt bullshit in November. Just imagine if Obama had used his AG and Justice department to go around the laws and judges rulings/sentencings. TraitorTrump TrumpIsALaughingStock
There are many prisoners who would need this. Do for the goose do for the gander.
This is an example of “rich privileged white man”.
This needs to be investigated.
morgfair Wow. Trump is getting everything he wanted. I guess impeachment is good for one.
So they won’t release Michael Cohen because he testified but they’ll release this scum rat? WhatAboutRealityWinner
Bill Cosby is next - nope his black Harvey Weinstein- nope his a Jew
All of trump's criminal conspirators & cohorts go free thank to barr & trump coordinated activities. VoteBlueToEndThisNightmare VoteBlue2020 VoteBlueToSaveAmerica
Justice is(n't) blind.
Wow, now he can jet off to Grand Cayman . He going to need to tap into his Russian off shore account. Right! Donnie.
Whose stupid fucking idea was that? Someone's head should roll for this.
Curious to know how many other elderly prisoners with pre-existing conditions were released from the same facility.
While realDonaldTrump MADE A POINT to keep his personal lawyer MichaelCohen from being released.
Meanwhile, non-mobster RealityWinner sits in prison that is rife with covid-19 deaths. FUCK THIS!!
But not Michael Cohen huh?!
WillChill9 so nice king size bed, personal space, tv/phone, visitors day/nite as he pleases, no jail food, nice chardonay's with din... yep - sounds about right...
Oh that’s right rich prisoners get to go home. Disgusting.
Can he now serve prison time in other States?
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
So no more prison term for a rich crook.
'Home arrest' is complete B.S. I hope the media are setting up surveillance teams to report on the times Manafort leaves to go sailing or to play tennis... He's been set free and Cohen will soon follow! No messy pardons to explain... just let 'em out! After all, trump is king!
Ooohh. Now do innocent people.
So many black kids are in prison for a very minor reason but yet The big fish is free wow
Unfreaking believable, NOT
Hmmmm I don’t see any people of any other color getting released
Awesome so we'll see everyone convicted of lesser crimes go home too then, right? Surely it's not special privilege.
Looks like Putin may be getting the old gang back together for 2020.
realDonaldTrump
Sounds about white.
There zero cases of covid 19 in this facility how hes better that others
A Totally corrupt Trump presidency.
The patriot to this country who told how he was selling America out is still in jail and has served most of her sentence.
What a journey of a true class act: lobbying our government along with Roger Stone on behalf of numerous violent dictators around the world, to managing the campaign of a candidate who's team manipulated the internet ads & news content seen by millions of unaware voters, to jail
I am not a lawyer but fruits of the poisonous tree must come into play here? Keep in mind liberals the FBI decline to prosecute him a couple times the Demonic Andrew Weissman decided to prosecute him
OMG am thinking I second thoughts about some things!
White, white, white-privilege mustbegoodtobeawhiteguy
The swamp is filling back up 🤮
Vi3tRevenant What about our loved ones? Clemency please
EvaChanda Are all Federal prisoners at risk being released, or just the presidents buddies?
White privilege
I hope trumptard gets the coronavirus and doesn't wear a mask and visits Man a fort and he gets it🤣
Isn't it a little strange that this and the traitor Flynn thing are happening just before we go into the elections?
Hey MAGA guy that got popped selling meth. Bet your Trump vote doesn’t get YOU out of the pokey.
GOP= lawlessness
Back home to Putin for his next assignment
greta About time.
This is bullshit! freerealitywinner
...and crickets (again) from Republican “leadership.”
Good
Great news.
White privilege
But not Michael Cohen?
Why does he get special treament?
morgfair Bullshit!
Oh my, the Twitter libtard heads are exploding over this one.
Yesss!
THIS IS WHAT MOST WANT TO SEE
He should have never been charged. Russia hoax
The rule of law no longer has any legitimacy in the USA. That won’t end well.
Outrageous!
If he is of no further use to Godfather Putin, he might be safer in prison.
Okay so we are back to white privilege, what fucken joke. Just disgusting.
adallos Is it only me or do we see a trend here ? Trump is making sure all of his minions who helped him steal the 2016 election are available for 2020.
Loving the leftists screaming in here; they ignore the fact that Avenatti and Michael Cohen have also been released. Not counting the other child rapists that have been let our because 'they might catch corinavirus'.
Everyone’s in ‘home confinement’. Put him to work. Fixing roads, or something.
I don’t like the guy. What Manafort did was criminal and not in the best interests of our country, but it doesn’t rise to a capital offense. No one should die of the virus while incarcerated. What really pisses me off is that other prisoners did not get his sweetheart deal.
It’s about time!
Terrific! Yay! Glad he is out.
Highly selective release and bull
Well that sucks!
Fuck this country
Of course
The jailed rich and powerful are no more important than the rest of the prison population. This release is bullshit.
Please prepare for Manafort to commit more crimes📮💵for comrade Putin(KGB)📮and WHouse Occupant🚨 CC: DemocraticAGs JohnKerry JohnBrennan RWPUSA waltshaub RepAdamSchiff HouseJudiciary CIAspygirl john_sipher ForTheRuleOfLaw ProjectLincoln MaxBoot tribelaw CREWcrew
The why the “F wasn’t Bill Cosby released? Instead he was denied !!
People care about prisoners more than the elderly who are being ignored, violating their rights and being mentally abused
Sounds about white
Banana. Republic.
About damn time. Now let lock up our corrupt ex President who spied on our current POTUS and ruined people's lives. Scum!!
PinchandScrimp remarkable- wonder if Trump and Barr were behind this
WTF?
So, so glad to hear this news! With all the corruption in our federal agencies, Manafort goes to jail?
If HE'S out prisons should be closed down. Especially the ones operated by ICEgov
This is some straight up bull 💩🤬! This shows that criminal justice doesn’t apply to all people in America! I’m so pissed!
trump getting the band back together.
Sure that seems fair. What about everybody else in prison? Is he special Manafort
Wow 👏👏👏
Barr is letting all the dogs out.
Yet Reality Winner, hero of the resistance, remains in prison!!
Kris_Sacrebleu With hair salons off limits how’s he gonna get his hair dyed?
With 0 cases of COVID19 JusticeOIG
Not fair that I get the same sentence and I didn’t do anything.
While thousands of minorities languish in prisons during covid-19 and no one cares. This is America, where there are two legal systems - one for rich, powerful and connected and the other for poor, especially minorities and powerless. I am so disgusted.
And just in time to try and help Trumps re-election from home, not happening this time Trump, my family and friends finally got their 🧠 back and left the Republican party in the midterms and in November, and now their families and friends are committed to voting with the 👇🏼
But it's OK for everyone to go back to work. Correctional Officers too, presumably.
“Amid coronavirus concerns”
Must be nice having friends in all the right places
GMA Trump is trying to ERASE the RussianInvestigation before his campaign trail restarts. He thinks he can erase our collusion memories. And why do White Rich Guy get released from jail 'because of CoronavirusOutbreak while BlackPeople can expect to stay right where they're at?
🤮🤮🤮
What the fuck?
Kris_Sacrebleu This is complete BS.
It's just a Democrat hoax tho? WTF?
Sucker!
greta Are we going overboard on this one? From those relatively healthy people who have had it, sounds like a nasty case of the flu. Why not protect folks with medical issues or let them decide for themselves and let’s get back to work, open business, and recreation. Enough of this.
All trump’s buddy needed to do was to act weak, get in a wheelchair then get released.
eagle_liberal A traitor to our country released to home confinement. How many young men are in jail for longer for less damage?
Here's to his impending execution.
REMEMBER THIS ON NOVEMBER 4
The Rule of Law is dead.
Some call that charma,,.
No words.
kxly4news so how does this affect us AT ALL. ITS BULLSHIT. just dance it a Kissinger chalk outline some more......
FreeRealityWinner
Soooooo, many, many men and women will be released from prison because of COVIDー19 and preexisting conditions—or just this one criminal? 🤔🙄
Well it looks like the deadly virus did somebody some good. Paul Manafort serves rest of his sentence at home- LIKE THE REST OF US!
Disgusting.
He’s going to replace Parscale
And the other prisoners
There is no law. This is the beginning of the end.
What about Cohen?
What a shock
WTF?
Released just in time to share 2020 polling data with Kilimnik
So now he's like the rest of us confined to our homes.
I still say you strip him and drop him in a town square in Ukraine where people remember his collusion with Yanukovych in trying to hand the country back to Putin.
Oh, something wicked this way comes!
Dirty Play but not out of the norm for this Corrupt and Compromised Administration
Seriously? I thought the virus was declining?
I'm sorry but this is disgusting. There are literally inmates BEGGING for their lives & LITERALLY dying in jail/prison within days/weeks of being released or having committed lesser crimes. The reality check of where we are is a nation is disillusioning, but glad to be waking up!
Give him cell phone and he’s back in business
You have to ask why governor Cuomo mandated New York nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients? That evil move is responsible for thousands of elderly deaths. Did he do it to increase the death rate to get a bailout for huge NY budget deficits? Cuomo's mandate is unforgivable.
That’s BS, Let him die in jail.
Sickening. Another stone cold traitor to the USA and allies.
Justice
PuffDomino But MichaelCohen212 remains jailed after also being set for release for the same thing?!?!? 🤷🏾♂️ 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Maybe we can put Obama in that cell now. America is discovering that he was in charge of Comey and his attempted removal of Trump. Manafort was a smokescreen to protect Obama and his thugs. Justice is coming for these corrupt politicians. 'Shifty' Schiff lying daily helped this.
Breaking?
This is a travesty of justice and has Bill Barr all over it. And Michael Cohen is still in jail because he was writing a tell all book.
What about Michael Cohen?
Classism and racism alive and well
tomcott - You were so concerned with prisoners being released...this one here should not be out. Agreed? Tom?
yet Michael Cohen was denied home confinement.
I'm sure Paul got a trust fund set up. Follow ALL the money
Just let them all go home, the rule of law is no longer relevant. If you went to jail for trump you get a free pass. Are they letting regular ass people go home from jail because of this?
Guess Michael Cohen doesn't qualify.
More
What a joke.
“Forever Feckless Congenital CON”
Smells like William Barr!
Give him a mask like everyone else.
WOW! The fvckery never ends.
Was he missing his ostrich jacket?
Ugh
Why couldn't they just throw him in the hole
Federal inmate Paul Manafort*
Must be white, I mean nice, to get an early release
Just open the prison doors and let all the prisoners out, he is no better than anybody else. His blood is red to. Trump is taking care of his criminals, the facts still remain the same, he’s a criminal.
Whatever next. Oh yeah - all of them pardoned and political opponents locked up. Bye bye America
Of course, different for Michael Cohen though
So Barr is playing a doctor now?
That's bullshit. Equal rights? Then let everyone out of prison, they are just as valuable as a human being than any other WHITE collar crook. Remember he's a traitor just like the rest in the White House.
So, some guy who sold dope in the wrong State gets to sit in prison and get C-19, but this murderer (and that's what he is, even according to his own daughter) gets to go home FOH
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: TMZ - 🏆 379. / 59 Read more »
Source: HuffPostWomen - 🏆 27. / 68 Read more »
Source: politico - 🏆 381. / 59 Read more »
Source: RollingStone - 🏆 483. / 51 Read more »