Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates will remain under house arrest while their attorneys work to negotiate conditions of their pretrial release.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said at a hearing Monday she is not yet convinced the two will not flee abroad because of their foreign ties and access to money.
Last week, the two were released into home confinement with GPS monitoring — Manafort on a $10 million bond and Gates on a $5 million bond.
“We are not talking about dangerousness,” Jackson said early Monday. “We’re talking about [risk of] flight.”
However, a deal with the lawyers is near that would release them from home confinement that would allow them to leave their homes so long as they are wearing a GPS monitor.
Manafort and Mueller were charged this month in 12-count indictment that included money laundering and tax fraud as part of a broad investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
