Fog Blog U.S. Justice Log:
JUDGE REVOKES BAIL AND SENDS PRESIDENT TRUMP'S FORMER CAMPAIGN MANAGER ...PAUL MANAFORT TO JAIL PENDING TRIAL!.....Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort will await his trial for foreign lobbying charges from jail.Two weeks after Robert Mueller's prosecutors dropped new accusations of witness tampering on him, US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson Friday revoked Manafort's bail, which allowed him out on house arrest.Court documents inadvertently reveal witnesses in Paul Manafort case
The order marks an end to months of attempts from Manafort to lighten his house arrest restrictions after he was charged and pleaded not guilty to foreign lobbying violations."The harm in this case is harm to the administration of justice and harm to the integrity of the court's system," Berman Jackson told Manafort in court.The judge emphasized to Manafort how she could not make enough rulings to keep him from speaking improperly with witnesses, after he had used multiple text messaging apps and called a potential witness on an Italian cell phone."This is not middle school. I can't take his cell phone," she said of Manafort. "I thought about this long and hard, Mr. Manafort. I have no appetite for this."Manafort also entered a not guilty plea to two additional charges levied against him last week, for witness tampering and conspiracy to obstruct justice. In total, Manafort faces seven criminal charges in DC federal court.