New York’s top court has ruled that former President Donald Trump’s onetime campaign chairman Paul Manafort cannot be prosecuted on a state level for financial crimes similar to the ones pardoned by Trump.
On Feb. 4, the New York Court of Appeals upheld a lower order from October 2020 that found Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance’s attempt to charge Manafort with mortgage fraud and other felonies violated the state’s so-called double jeopardy law, which bars prosecutors from pursuing crimes that have already been tried on a federal level.
