rikers island prison. the department of justice s unusual request to spare him that fate ahead. and breaking overnight prosecutors in the dominican republic say they have identified the suspect accused of paying for the attempted hit on red sox star david ortiz. we are live.
if i call out with a migraine, that s one less ambulance to serve a community. i just don t want to let these people down. excedrin migraine. relief that works as hard as you do. president trump s former campaign chairman paul manafort was spared a transfer to new york s notorious rikers island. that after the u.s. deputy attorney general himself intervened. of course, the deputy a.g. appointed by this president. the question is why. so instead manafort was moved yesterday to a federal correctional center right in manhattan where he awaits a hearing on state charges. a senior justice department official tells us the doj decided to, quote, err on the
uncommon thing. i think the way that you grow an learn is by suffering consequences for your actions. and so to kind of skirt consequences and say, oh, i grew, i learned. well, then own up and suffer the consequences. well, he certainly is in this case very publicly as well. taylor lorenz, thank you so much for coming on. thanks for having me. former trump campaign chairman paul manafort may no longer be heading to new york s notorious rikers island prison after the doj intervenes. we have details on this unusual request ahead. plus democratic congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is getting flak after she compares the trump administration s border detention facilities to concentration camps. hear how she is trying to clarify herself, next.
and there s a tragic bit of poetry to all of this. look, one of the central park five was held at rikers island that the president of the united states called for the death penalty for. the death penalty for. now the president s campaign manager managed to get out of because he had friends in high places. yesterday there was a case that i want to ask you about. the supreme court ruled that a person can be prosecuted twice for the same crime in both federal and state courts. tell us how this is going to play when it comes to manafort. well, again, manafort, because he s facing state charges now, and i guess there was a question as to whether if the supreme court had ruled a certain way whether it might have complicated or thrown things out. this is an incredibly complex law but the simple fact is he can still be tried on state charges. there s a new york times piece that lays out all the stuff about manafort today. it quotes manafort s lawyers as saying these charges are non
in an extremely unusual move, the department of justice has swooped in at the 11th hour to try to save purchaser s former campaign chairman, paul manafort, from rikers island in new york. the long-time trump associate was expected to await trial there, but then the deputy attorney general, jeffrey rosen, stepped in with a letter to state prosecutors fielding a request from manafort s defense lawyers to keep him in a federal manhattan prison instead. now it appears that that may happen. elliott williams was the deputy assistant attorney general under president obama. i mean how unusual is it for the second highest official at doj to intervene like this? and would this have gone up to the attorney general? no. unusual would make it seem like it might happen, but infrequently. this kind of thing would never happen. it just shows the kinds of inequalities you see in our criminal justice system. look, if you have friends in high places, to paraphrase garth brooks, you can get out of