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   From: sflibertarian@sfchronicle.com   
      
   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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