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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy aren't Gates and Manafort in jail?
Is Mueller playing them?
Otherwise I don't get it.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)That's my understanding.
Way too low IMHO.
I read that ill gotten gains cannot be used for bail.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)for the Judge to modify her orders. These two people are or will be on a very short leash.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)that on one hand they are branded serious flight risks and on the other they were allowed to
turn themselves in instead of the FBI going out and arresting them before they might flee.
sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)I doubt they were really alone after Friday. Probably had a shadow the entire time ready to pounce if they went near an airport.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)has been warned if something happens.
drray23
(7,638 posts)You can sneak out of the country maybe with a private plane or such. Somebody like manafort has enough unsavory connections in the eastern block he could probably get an ukrainian or similar passport if he does not already have one.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)to Putin, but not going to happen. They know that Putin would kill them.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)3 reasons for the bail, and the means to pay the bail.
Irish_Dem
(47,518 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)DLevine
(1,788 posts)especially if you are a poor person of color.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)Greybnk48
(10,177 posts)to shut them up? At home they can be protected. Or maybe I watch too much T.V.
CanonRay
(14,121 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Just ask Susan Mac Dougal. (sp?)
Oh wait
You cant
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)It's not usually automatic for an accused to be denied bail for a charge other than homicide. It does happen sometimes, of course, since prosecutors do ask for it in the case of flight risk issues or violent crimes. They asked for remand in the Dominique Strauss Kahn rape case since he would not have been extraditable from France had he returned there, but the judge set his bail at a very high amount and required that he wear an ankle monitor while confined to a temporary residence in NYC. (His very rich then wife put up the bail.)
Mueller didn't ask for remand apparently, going the high cash bail/home confinement route. Manafort's bail was set at $10 million, Gates's is $5 million. Both are confined to their homes. It's very likely that they are under physical surveillance as well.
The business with the X% bond that you referenced is a little misleading. A bail bondsman will bail someone out for a low-ish cash percentage, but someone needs to put up collateral for the rest of the amount. Like mom's house, for example. The reason that so many people are in jail before their trials is that they cannot afford to make the full cash bail, or even the cash upfront percentage required by the bail-bondmen, much less have the collateral required for the remaining bond.