President Trump’s former campaign chairman,
Paul Manafort has been jailed after allegations of witness tampering while on
bail. He is currently on trial for federal conspiracy and money laundering. Washington
Post journalists Spencer S. Hsu, Ellen Nakashima, and Devlin Barret reported on
Manafort’s jailing in their article Paul
Manafort ordered to jail after witness tampering charges (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/manafort-ordered-to-jail-after-witness-tampering-charges/2018/06/15/ccc526cc-6e68-11e8-afd5-778aca903bbe_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2ef555db21d5).
The sitting judge described the order as “an extraordinarily difficult decision
(Hsu, et al)” but “she should not have to
draft a court order spelling out the entire criminal code for him to avoid
violations (Hsu, et al).” Manafort “had been confined to his home on electronic
monitoring and other restrictions since he was first indicted Oct. 27
during special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe of Russian interference
(Hsu, et al).” President Trump tweeted about the jailing of his former
chairman, saying that jail is “a tough sentence (Hsu, et al).”
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