It seems Special Counsel Robert Mueller finally has Paul Manafort right where he wants him – behind bars.
The judge overseeing the case against the former Trump campaign executive has ruled that the witness tampering charges levied against Manafort a week ago are serious enough to justify canceling his house arrest terms. Manafort will now be sent to jail to wait out the remainder of the time until his trial, Bloomberg reports.
This is a coup for Mueller – who has been trying to exert as much pressure as possible on Manafort to try to convince him to cooperate against his former boss.
Paul Manafort hurries into courthouse to sparse chants of “Lock him up!” pic.twitter.com/rG4PBSaXjS
— Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) June 15, 2018
Video footage recorded earlier showed Manafort heading into court as a group of maybe two or three people chanted “lock him up.”
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