Ex-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort released from prison to home confinement

• Manafort, 71, serving seven-year sentence for fraud
• Lawyers argued he was at high risk from coronavirus

Paul Manafort, the disgraced former chairman of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was released from prison on Wednesday and will serve out the rest of his sentence under home confinement.

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