Bureau of Prisons transfers Manafort from prison to home confinement

Date: 2020-05-13
Entry type: custody-transfer
Current status: Transferred to home confinement; Trump later pardoned the convictions

The COVID-era decision changed where he served his 90-month sentence roughly seven months before Trump's pardon.

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The Bureau of Prisons transferred Manafort from FCI Loretto to home confinement after his lawyers cited his age and health risks from COVID-19. He had served roughly one year of a 90-month term, and the prison had no reported case at the time. AP also described broader, shifting BOP release guidance. The administrative transfer was not an exoneration, and no cited evidence linked it to political favoritism.
- Associated Press: Paul Manafort released from prison because of virus concernsTransfer date, prison, sentence remaining, health rationale, facility status, and BOP policy context
- U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Pardon Attorney: Executive Grant of Clemency for Paul J. Manafort, Jr.December 23, 2020 pardon of Manafort's Virginia and D.C. convictions