Post by the Scribe on Jun 13, 2020 18:41:31 GMT
Dump and Lumpy (Trump and Barr) seem to have a double standard for their criminal cronies. And if this pandemic is so serious than how come Trump and company are pushing the rest of the country to open up? And now they are using it as a pretext to get their criminal co-conspiritors out of prison. What a crock. They can't have it both ways. Money talks and evidently money walks also. JUSTICE for SOME and not for ALL but ONLY if you are a RepubliCON. VOTE 2020.
Coronavirus was Paul Manafort's ticket home. Many other old, ill, nonviolent inmates are still in prison
www.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-paul-manaforts-ticket-home-100008529.html
Kristine Phillips, USA TODAY
USA TODAYJune 9, 2020, 8:42 AM MST
Like Paul Manafort, Mike Yepremian has a long list of health problems that place him at high risk of dying of COVID-19. He has diabetes, high blood pressure, heart and respiratory failure and sepsis, some of the same ailments that have afflicted Donald Trump’s former presidential campaign chairman.
Like Manafort, Yepremian was hospitalized a few months ago. In February, his pneumonia had gotten so bad that he was put into a medically induced coma for nine days while intubated, his family said. In April, he was back in the hospital.
Like Manafort, Yepremian is serving time for a white-collar crime. Manafort defrauded the government out of millions of dollars he amassed through illicit lobbying. Yepremian defrauded Medicare by running fake clinics in Texas. Manafort was sentenced to 7½ years. Yepremian is serving 10 years.
Both men, their attorneys said, are nonviolent, first-time prisoners who don’t have the capacity to commit another crime. Both men are probably in the last years of their lives. Manafort is 71; Yepremian is 63.
Isolated, scared: The plight of juveniles locked up during the coronavirus pandemic
www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/27/coronavirus-juveniles-risk-covid-19-spreads-facilities/3000637001/
Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for Donald Trump, arrives at Manhattan Supreme Court on June 27, 2019, for his arraignment on mortgage fraud charges.
Manafort, once a well-known Republican operative, was released early, following Attorney General William Barr’s order to expedite moving vulnerable prisoners to home confinement because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Yepremian, an unknown, remains incarcerated.
Attorneys and advocates said there are many more like Yepremian – old, nonviolent prisoners who aren’t a threat to public safety, yet remain behind bars even as the virus infects hundreds of inmates and staff. The way the federal Bureau of Prisons implemented Barr’s directive has been inconsistent, confusing and slow, attorneys and advocates said. The agency has broad discretion in determining who can spend the rest of their sentence at home, but how this gets decided is cloaked in secrecy.
“This is a classic problem with the BOP, just a lack of transparency. When everything is shielded from oversight, people are going to be skeptical with it,” said Kevin Ring, president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums.
Judge calls BOP's quarantine policies 'illogical'
The release of a former Trump ally has raised eyebrows among critics, although it's unclear whether privilege or influence played a role.
Coronavirus was Paul Manafort's ticket home. Many other old, ill, nonviolent inmates are still in prison
www.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-paul-manaforts-ticket-home-100008529.html
Kristine Phillips, USA TODAY
USA TODAYJune 9, 2020, 8:42 AM MST
Like Paul Manafort, Mike Yepremian has a long list of health problems that place him at high risk of dying of COVID-19. He has diabetes, high blood pressure, heart and respiratory failure and sepsis, some of the same ailments that have afflicted Donald Trump’s former presidential campaign chairman.
Like Manafort, Yepremian was hospitalized a few months ago. In February, his pneumonia had gotten so bad that he was put into a medically induced coma for nine days while intubated, his family said. In April, he was back in the hospital.
Like Manafort, Yepremian is serving time for a white-collar crime. Manafort defrauded the government out of millions of dollars he amassed through illicit lobbying. Yepremian defrauded Medicare by running fake clinics in Texas. Manafort was sentenced to 7½ years. Yepremian is serving 10 years.
Both men, their attorneys said, are nonviolent, first-time prisoners who don’t have the capacity to commit another crime. Both men are probably in the last years of their lives. Manafort is 71; Yepremian is 63.
Isolated, scared: The plight of juveniles locked up during the coronavirus pandemic
www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/27/coronavirus-juveniles-risk-covid-19-spreads-facilities/3000637001/
Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for Donald Trump, arrives at Manhattan Supreme Court on June 27, 2019, for his arraignment on mortgage fraud charges.
Manafort, once a well-known Republican operative, was released early, following Attorney General William Barr’s order to expedite moving vulnerable prisoners to home confinement because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Yepremian, an unknown, remains incarcerated.
Attorneys and advocates said there are many more like Yepremian – old, nonviolent prisoners who aren’t a threat to public safety, yet remain behind bars even as the virus infects hundreds of inmates and staff. The way the federal Bureau of Prisons implemented Barr’s directive has been inconsistent, confusing and slow, attorneys and advocates said. The agency has broad discretion in determining who can spend the rest of their sentence at home, but how this gets decided is cloaked in secrecy.
“This is a classic problem with the BOP, just a lack of transparency. When everything is shielded from oversight, people are going to be skeptical with it,” said Kevin Ring, president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums.
Judge calls BOP's quarantine policies 'illogical'
The release of a former Trump ally has raised eyebrows among critics, although it's unclear whether privilege or influence played a role.