Paul Manafort Blocked From a Flight to Dubai

Federal authorities prevented former Trump campaign chief and convicted criminal Paul Manafort from boarding a flight in Miami departing for Dubai.

Manafort was attempting to travel on an Emirates Airline flight on Sunday with a revoked passport when Customs and Border Patrol agents barred him from boarding the plane without incident.

Manafort’s passport was revoked after his arrest in 2017. He was convicted by a jury in August 2018 of eight tax and bank fraud crimes. In May 2020, Manafort was released from prison before serving a seven year sentence due to concerns about the coronavirus. In December 2020 the former guy pardoned him.

Manafort is not legally prevented from leaving the country or from applying for a new passport to replace his old one. It was not clear why he had tried to travel on an invalid passport.

Dubai’s airport offers flights to multiple airports in Russia.

CNBC, AP