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New York Charges Manafort With 16 Crimes. If He’s Convicted, Trump Can’t Pardon Him.

The charges are part of an effort to ensure he will still face prison time if President Trump pardons him for his federal crimes.

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1. Right after Manafort was sentenced to 43 more months in prison in his 2nd trial...
2. New York state indicts Manafort on SIXTEEN additional charges. A copy of the indictment is available here.
3. On Monday, New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, subpoenaed bank records relating to the financing of several Trump projects  #TrumpOrganization  #TrumpFamily
4. Last week, state regulators in the administration of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo began an examination of insurance policies and claims involving the president’s family business.
5. Trump is next  #NewYorkIsComingForYou   #MuellerIsComingForYou

Paul J. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, has been charged in New York with mortgage fraud and more than a dozen other state felonies, the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., said Wednesday, an effort to ensure he will still face prison time if Mr. Trump pardons him for his federal crimes.

The new state charges against Mr. Manafort are contained in a 16-count indictment that alleges a yearlong scheme in which he falsified business records to obtain millions of dollars in loans, Mr. Vance said in a news release after the federal sentencing.

Vance adding that the investigation by the prosecutors in his office had “yielded serious criminal charges for which the defendant has not been held accountable.”

State Supreme Court Justice Maxwell Wiley unsealed the charges in the early afternoon, but it will likely be weeks before Mr. Manafort is brought to New York to be arraigned.

The 11-page indictment contains few details about the conduct underlying the accusations, but it says they occurred between December 2015 and January 2017. 

Several people with knowledge of the matter said the mortgage fraud charges stemmed from loans Mr. Manafort obtained or tried to obtain from Citizens Bank, based in Rhode Island, and Federal Savings Bank in Chicago.

The loans were for properties on Howard Street, in Lower Manhattan; on Union Street in Brooklyn Heights; and in Bridgehampton on Long Island, the people said.