Judge denies Manafort’s request to move trial away from DC

Published July 17, 2018 10:31pm ET



Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s request to move his trial from Alexandria, Va., to Roanoke, Va., was rejected by a federal judge Tuesday.

Manafort and his attorneys argued the trial should be moved due to the “saturation of the D.C. media market” and the “level of education and political leanings of the jury pool,” according to Tuesday’s ruling.

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