Paul Manafort
“Given the nature of the charges against the defendant and the apparent weight of the evidence against him, defendant faces the very real possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison,” Federal Judge T.S. Ellis III said.
Ellis III, of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia had placed him under house arrest. Manafort was now under GPS monitoring and $10 million unsecured bail.
“He is quite manifestly a risk of flight. He has substantial personal assets and faces a substantial period of incarceration if he is convicted,” Ellis said.
Manafort refused to cooperate with Mueller. It was said that Mueller was pressuring him to give up anything he had on Trump.
His refusal to comply with the request to assist in the probe now places him in a situation where his freedom could be permanently taken away.
