According to CBS News:
“Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was transferred Wednesday to home confinement after he requested release because of the threat COVID-19 poses to his health, his lawyer, Kevin Downing, confirmed to CBS News.
CBS News was told that early Wednesday morning two family members including his wife picked up Manafort at LCI Loretto, the low-security federal prison in Pennsylvania where he has been serving his term.
In March 2019, Manafort was sentenced to a total of 90 months - or 7.5 years - in two separate cases involving tax and bank fraud and related charges.”
On April 13, his attorneys, Manafort attorneys Todd Blanche and Kevin Downing, wrote a letter to the director of the BoP and the warden at Federal Correctional Institution Loretto, where Manafort was imprisoned, to request an immediate transfer to home confinement "to serve the remainder of his sentence or, alternatively, for the duration of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic." They argued their client is 71 years old and suffers from myriad health issues, including "high blood pressure, liver disease, and respiratory ailments."
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See:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paul-m...ent-due-to-coronavirus-threat-in-prison/
“Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was transferred Wednesday to home confinement after he requested release because of the threat COVID-19 poses to his health, his lawyer, Kevin Downing, confirmed to CBS News.
CBS News was told that early Wednesday morning two family members including his wife picked up Manafort at LCI Loretto, the low-security federal prison in Pennsylvania where he has been serving his term.
In March 2019, Manafort was sentenced to a total of 90 months - or 7.5 years - in two separate cases involving tax and bank fraud and related charges.”
On April 13, his attorneys, Manafort attorneys Todd Blanche and Kevin Downing, wrote a letter to the director of the BoP and the warden at Federal Correctional Institution Loretto, where Manafort was imprisoned, to request an immediate transfer to home confinement "to serve the remainder of his sentence or, alternatively, for the duration of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic." They argued their client is 71 years old and suffers from myriad health issues, including "high blood pressure, liver disease, and respiratory ailments."
See:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paul-m...