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U.S. NEWS Friday 28 June 2019

Double jeopardy fight looms

after Manafort pleads not guilty

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and conduct under federal law. foreign lobbying work, hid-
TOM HAYS "In our views, the laws of ing millions of dollars from
Associated Press New York do not allow the tax authorities and encour-
NEW YORK (AP) — A frail people to do what they did aging witnesses to lie on his
Paul Manafort shuffled into in this case," lawyer Todd behalf.
court Thursday in hand- Blanche told reporters after He is due back in court in
cuffs and prison garb and Manafort's arraignment. the state case on Oct. 9. His
pleaded not guilty to New Manafort, wearing a blue lawyers asked if he could
York state mortgage fraud prison jumpsuit, walked skip all pretrial hearings, but
charges that could keep with a limp as court officers Judge Maxwell Wiley said Paul Manafort arrives in court, Thursday, June 27, 2019 in New
York. President Trump s former campaign manager is to be ar-
him behind bars even if led him down a public hall he will decide that on a raigned on state mortgage fraud charges.
President Donald Trump to and from the courtroom. hearing-by-hearing basis. Associated Press
pardons him for federal He had been transferred Manhattan District Attorney
crimes uncovered during last week to a federal de- Cy Vance Jr. announced ing to do with Russian elec- duct described in the New
the probe of Russian elec- tention center in New York the state charges in March, tion interference, but rather York indictment echoes the
tion meddling. for his arraignment in the just minutes after Manafort Manafort's years of "gam- charges and testimony in
A lawyer for Manafort, the state case. was sentenced in the sec- ing the system." Manafort's federal cases.
former 2016 Trump cam- Manafort, 70, remained ond of his two federal cas- The 16-count New York in- Paperwork filed by New
paign chairman turned seated as he entered his es, saying in a statement at dictment alleges Manafort York prosecutors in con-
twice-convicted federal plea and had to be helped the time: "No one is beyond gave false and misleading nection with Thursday's ar-
inmate, said he intends to out of his chair when taken the law in New York." information in applying for raignment cite admissions
challenge the state case out of the courtroom. He Manafort's federal cases residential mortgage loans, Manafort made during his
under New York's strong used a wheelchair at his were byproducts of spe- starting in 2015 and con- federal trial in Washing-
double jeopardy protec- last federal sentencing in cial counsel Robert Muel- tinuing until three days be- ton in September regard-
tions. State law prohibits March because of gout. ler's probe of Russian influ- fore Trump's inauguration ing misrepresentations in
prosecutors from bringing Manafort is already serving ence on the 2016 election, in 2017. He is also charged mortgage applications for
state charges against a a 7½-year prison sentence but a judge who presided with falsifying business re- properties in Manhattan
person who has previously for misleading the U.S. gov- over one of them made cords and conspiracy. and Brooklyn and on Long
been charged for the same ernment about his lucrative clear that they had noth- Some of the alleged con- Island.q