MIAMI (AP) — Former Trump adviser Paul Manafort was removed from a plane at Miami International Airport before it took off for Dubai because he carried a revoked passport, officials said Wednesday.
Highlights
- Paul Paul Paul was removed from a plane at Miami International Airport before it took off for Dubai because he carried a revoked passport, officials said Wednesday.
- Miami-Dade police confirmed Wednesday, March 23, 2022, that he was removed.
- He led former President Donald Trump’s campaign for several months during the 2016 presidential race but was ousted in August of that year after revelations about his business dealings in Ukraine.
- He was convicted by a jury in August 2018 and later pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington.
- Trump pardoned him in December 2020 after he was released from a low-security prison where he was serving a more than seven-year federal sentence.