President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been moved from a minimum security prison near Scranton, Pennsylvania, to the federal correction center in Manhattan that recently housed the notorious Mexican drug lord known as “El Chapo,” federal records show.
The move to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City comes as Manafort is expected to appear in court there on state mortgage fraud charges. The New York Times had previously reported that Manafort would be headed to the notorious Rikers Island jail complex, but a Justice Department official said it was decided he would remain in …read more
Source: Independent Online
