Paul Manafort charged by New York prosecutors with 16 further crimes

• Manafort charged with fraud minutes after federal sentencing
• Trump has no authority to issue pardon in state cases

Paul Manafort has been charged with 16 felonies by the state of New York, meaning that he could be convicted and jailed for crimes that Donald Trump is powerless to pardon.

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