Discussion: After Whining About Rural Jail, Manafort Asks Judge To Reverse Order To Move Him

cervantes · July 10, 2018, 10:07pm

Who cares? It’s Deripaska’s money.

cervantes · July 10, 2018, 10:08pm

Not in a million, trillion, gazillion, kajillion years.

sanni · July 10, 2018, 10:08pm

My first reaction - sudden worries about access - by the Manafort? Concern after the novichok death in the UK

outis · July 10, 2018, 10:09pm

How close is his house to the courthouse?

erik_t · July 10, 2018, 10:09pm

more importantly, the challenges he will face in adjusting to a new place of confinement and the changing circumstances of detention

Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I bet they find this one to be a hell of a hoot on Riker’s.

dark_hawk_98 · July 10, 2018, 10:09pm

Paulie the diva. I wonder how he will adjust to super max in Florence, Colorado?

dave_mb · July 10, 2018, 10:13pm

Bing bing bing!!

Give the man the big prize! Got it in one.

katscherger · July 10, 2018, 10:14pm

Maybe he liked the food served at the rural jail. Some of those rural jails serve road kill.

occamscoin · July 10, 2018, 10:15pm

I didn’t think so. So we’re left with either a very tenuous appeal strategy (mean judge put the defendant in a remote jail thus impeding his defence) or manafort’s attorneys are milking him. Maybe both.

dr_coyote · July 10, 2018, 10:18pm

#RussianMob

clunkertruck · July 10, 2018, 10:20pm

Doesn’t want to forfeit what’s already in the commissary —

chelsea530 · July 10, 2018, 10:21pm

Beats being road kill.

airportman · July 10, 2018, 10:22pm

Dear Paul:

Womp womp.

Might wanna have a secure grip on that soap…

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving traitor.

clunkertruck · July 10, 2018, 10:25pm

nemo · July 10, 2018, 10:26pm

The presiding judge, Ellis, is clearly an asshole of the first rank. Glad that he’s been hoist by his anti-Mueller petard.

just_between_us · July 10, 2018, 10:27pm

He thought that Judge Ellis would be more accommodating. Judge Ellis wasn’t the one who originally revoked his bail and sent him to jail. He’s the one who told Mueller and co., “You don’t really care about Mr. Manafort’s bank fraud.” So it may have been a hail Mary to get Judge Ellis to overrule the judge in DC who put him in the Virginia jail to begin with.

tompaine73 · July 10, 2018, 10:34pm

A lot of time for those special solitary moments.

squirreltown · July 10, 2018, 10:37pm

So does he move or stay while waiting for the Judge to rescind the order?

tompaine73 · July 10, 2018, 10:40pm

That’s 10 to the umpty-bazillion!

voreason · July 10, 2018, 10:41pm

Hey Paul, the Pressure is On

In the immortal lyrics of Toots and the Maytals

I said a pressure drop,
Oh pressure, oh yeah
Pressure’s gonna drop on you
I said pressure drop
Oh pressure, oh yeah
Pressure’s gonna drop on you

I said when it drops
Oh you gonna feel it
Oh that you were doin’ it wrong, wrong, wrong
Now when it drops
Oh you gonna feel it
That you were doin’ it wrong and how

It is you (oh yeah)
It is you, you (oh yeah)
It is you (oh yeah)