Trump's ex-campaign manager indicted in New York on state charges

news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">new York, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Paul Manafort, U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, has been indicted in news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">new York on 16 charges including mortgage fraud and other state felonies, state prosecutors said on Wednesday.

The Manhattan District Attorney's office said in a press release that Manafort was charged in a news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">new York State Supreme Court indictment filed on March 7 "for a yearlong residential mortgage fraud scheme through which Manafort and others falsified business records to illegally obtain millions of dollars."

"No one is beyond the law in news.cn/en/tag/i0xngaj3163f76200c981b/index.html" target="_blank">new York," said the District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. in the press release.

The fresh indictment is widely considered as an effort to ensure Manafort will still face jail time even if Trump pardons him on the federal cases, as president has no power in issuing pardons in state cases, local media reported.

The announcement came less than an hour after Manafort, 69, was sentenced in Washington to another 43 months in federal prison on conspiracy charges on Wedesday. Earlier this month, he was sentenced in Virginia to 47 months in jail for tax and bank fraud on his first federal case, much shorter than prosecutors have requested.