Paul Manafort's Trump Tower apartment is now property of the U.S. government

Paul Manafort.
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A piece of Trump Tower in Manhattan now belongs to the U.S. government.

On Thursday, Judge Amy Berman Jackson approved the Justice Department's request to seize Paul Manafort's condo inside President Trump's flagship building. Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, was convicted of tax and bank fraud last August and pleaded guilty in September to conspiracy charges. He is now serving a 7.5-year sentence in a federal prison.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.