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  Impotent Democrat tool Cy Vance's case against Paul Manafort officially dead "SF Libertarian" <sflibertarian@sfchronicle.com> - 2021-03-06 22:27 +0100

#2241 — Impotent Democrat tool Cy Vance's case against Paul Manafort officially dead

New York’s highest court has denied Manhattan District Attorney 
Cy Vance’s effort to charge former President Donald Trump’s ex-
campaign manager Paul Manafort in a mortgage fraud case.

In the ruling handed down last week, Chief Judge Janet DiFiore 
upheld the decision by a lower appeals court and by Judge 
Maxwell Wiley, who both ruled that Vance’s attempt to charge 
Manafort would violate double jeopardy.

Manafort was convicted of a fraud scheme in federal court and 
sentenced to seven years in prison — but was pardoned by Trump 
soon before he left office.

After Manafort was convicted, Vance announced het had been 
charged in New York state court on a 16-count indictment, 
alleging he had defrauded banks by lying to obtain mortgages on 
four properties.

Judge Wiley struck down the attempt in a 26-page decision in 
December, saying the case was too close to the federal charges 
Manafort had already been prosecuted for.

“The People have failed to establish that the harm or evil each 
statute is designed to prevent is very different in kind from 
the federal statutes for which the defendant was previously 
prosecuted,” Wiley wrote the decision.

Vance then appealed to the First Judicial Department of the 
Appeals Court, which upheld Wiley’s decision.

Vance then appealed to the state’s highest court, leading to 
Judge DiFiore’s Feb. 4 decision.

“As we have said from the time the District Attorney announced 
charges against Mr. Manafort, this is a case that should never 
have been brought because the dismissed indictment is a clear 
violation of New York law,” Manafort’s attorney, Todd Blanche 
said Monday.

“As the trial court held, and the Appellate Division affirmed, 
the People’s arguments ‘fall far short’ of triggering an 
exception to double jeopardy that would justify this 
prosecution,” he added.

https://nypost.com/2021/02/08/cy-vances-case-against-manafort-
dismissed-by-nys-highest-court/
    

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