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the imprisoned former trump campaign chairman paul manafort could soon be transferred to a notoriously brutal new york city jail complex. brian has been looking into for us. this is about paul manafort s transfer to rikers island. tonight manafort s lawyers tell cnn they don t want him to be sent there where he could be held in solitary and could be targeted whenever he s outside his cell. former trump campaign chairman paul manafort once lived in the lap of luxury, his million dollars homes in the hamptons, trump tower and in florida known for their extravagance, but tonight life for the now disgraced campaign operative who is serving a seven and a half year sentence of being convicted on federal charges of bank fraud, tax fraud and lobby violations as part of robert mueller s russia investigation may be about to get a lot worse. a source tells cnn prosecutors in new york are trying to move
chief, and apparently after that she wrote a letter to her bosses saying he was not suitable to run that kind of organization. on top of that, we have a french woman who says she was assaulted by strauss-kahn back in 2002. she did not report it at the time, because she says she was persuaded not, but now her attorney says she will file a legal complaint against the imf chief. shep? shepard: jonathan, thanks. more now on the jail complex where the imf chief is locked up tonight. rikers island houses some 14,000 inmates. it s often cited in episodes of law and order. you ve probably seen it. it s a far cry from his usually luxury digs. this sprawling complex is enormous. the judge says no bail. he gets turned around.