Paul Manafort was expected to spend time in New York City’s most notorious jail, but won't thanks to the intervention of the deputy attorney general
Paul Manafort will get to skip Rikers. Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images Paul Manafort won’t go to Rikers Island after all.
The reprieve comes after the intervention of Jeffrey Rosen, William Barr’s deputy attorney general and Trump’s replacement for Rod Rosenstein. Last week, Rosen surprised New York City prosecutors by sending a letter “inquiring about Mr. Manafort’s case,” the New York Times reports. On Monday, word came down that Manafort would not be going to Rikers, unlike most federal inmates facing state charges.
A senior DOJ official said in a statement Tuesday that the department decided to “err on the side of caution” and grant the request to keep Manafort out of Rikers. But it’s the involvement of the deputy attorney general that is raising eyebrows.
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