CLEVELAND, OH - JULY 17: Paul Manafort, Campaign Manager for Donald Trump, speaks on the phone while touring the floor of the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Loans Arena as final preparations continue July 17, 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio. The Republican National Convention begins July 18. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Former President Donald Trump adviser Paul Manafort was removed from a plane at Miami International Airport headed to Dubai because he was carrying a revoked passport on Sunday night.
Miami-Dade Police Department Detective Alvara Zabaleta confirmed that Manafort had exited the plane with “no further incident.” The purpose of his trip to Dubai is unknown.
Manafort served as campaign chairman for Trump’s 2016 campaign, but was let go in August of that year after speculation of illegal business dealings rose. He was heavily involved in the Trump-Russia conspiracy as a primary contact who passed information from the Trump campaign to Russian spies.
In 2018, he was indicted on eight counts of bank and tax fraud which landed him a seven-plus year prison sentence. In 2020, he was allowed to serve the rest of his sentence at home in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. President Trump pardoned him in December 2020.
Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter!
A week of political news in your in-box.
We find the news you need to know, so you don't have to.
On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banned noncompete agreements in a 3-2 vote. The…
A proposed bill in California would prohibit security screening company CLEAR from skipping the general…
On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over a challenge to a law allowing…
The Arizona House of Representatives failed to advance a repeal of the state's 160-year-old abortion…
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) signed a bill restoring criminal charges in cases of hard drug possession.…
President Joe Biden's administration announced the first-ever national limits on toxic "forever chemicals" in drinking water. This…