New York’s highest court has denied the Manhattan district attorney’s effort to charge former President Donald Trump’s one-time campaign manager Paul Manafort in a mortgage fraud case.
The New York State Court of Appeals decision, which was handed down last week, upholds a lower court ruling that the state charges brought against Manafort by District Attorney Cyrus Vance were too close to the ones Manafort had already been prosecuted for at a federal court.
