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    For Paul Manafort, an uncommonly comfortable life behind bars

    by Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times Jul 11, 2018 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - When President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman wants to call his lawyers from jail, he doesn't have to line up at a pay phone. He just picks up the private line in his cell.

    Paul Manafort also doesn't wear an orange jumpsuit or any other prison uniform. He has his own laptop computer, complete with an extension cord. Not to mention a private toilet and shower.

    The jailhouse accommodations are plush enough that Manafort boasted of his "VIP" treatment during a recorded phone call. The conversation and other details of his confinement were cited by prosecutors in an unusual court filing on Wednesday aimed at convincing the judge to reject Manafort's demand to delay

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