The judge who ordered the transfer of Paul Manafort to another prison dismissed concerns about the safety of the former campaign chairman to Donald Trump, saying the facility knows how to handle "terrorists, spies and traitors," according to the legal news outlet Law & Crime.
Attorneys for Manafort had resisted transferring him from the Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Virginia, to a facility in Alexandra, Virginia, ahead of his upcoming trial.
Manafort has been charged with financial and foreign lobbying-related crimes as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.