Paul Manafort, former campaign manager of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, will not wait for his state trial in the scandal-ridden Rikers Island jail in New York City due to intervention from the Department of Justice, a media report said.
Manafort is already serving 7 1/2 years in a federal prison in Pennsylvania for money laundering, tax evasion, bank fraud, unregistered lobbying, and attempted witness tampering.
