Paul Manafort will be arraigned Thursday in New York City on state fraud charges. The former Trump campaign chairman has been sentenced to federal prison for financial crimes.
He plans to plead not guilty and to fight the charges on the state's double jeopardy grounds, according to his defense lawyer, Todd Blanche.Manafort is currently in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, a federal prison.The arraignment places him in the public eye again after his case drew enormous attention during the special counsel's office probe.
Less than an hour later, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance announced a 16-count criminal indictment charging Manafort with state crimes, including residential mortgage fraud and falsifying business records.The charges relate to mortgages Manafort received on properties in the New York area at a time when his foreign lobbying business was drying up. The state charges involve some of the same bank loans that led to his conviction by the federal jury last summer.
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