Manafort transferred to federal prison
Paul Manafort, former chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, has been transferred to a minimum-security prison near Scranton, Pa., to serve his federal sentence after being convicted in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
Manafort is to be released on Christmas Day 2024, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
The U.S. Penitentiary at Canaan Township is a high-security prison for men, with a minimum-security satellite camp for about 113 inmates — where Manafort is staying — about 134 miles north of Philadelphia, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
Manafort, 70, was transferred late last week from the jail in Alexandria, Va., and logged into the federal system overnight Tuesday.
Manafort was sentenced March 13 to 7½ years in prison in Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election for conspiring to hide tens of millions of dollars earned through undisclosed lobbying for a Russia-aligned politician in Ukraine and conspiring to tamper with witnesses, as well as bank and tax fraud.
Manafort served about 10 months of his sentence while he was jailed pending trial in Alexandria. His release date factors in estimated good-time credits.
On the day Manafort was sentenced in federal court, state prosecutors in New York announced a 16-count grand jury indictment charging him with mortgage fraud, falsifying business records and conspiracy. Those charges are pending.