Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s ex-campaign manager, is being held in a VIP cell at the Northern Neck Regional Jail in Virginia, but isn’t receiving any special treatment, says the superintendent there.
"I've probably gotten a dozen calls — people saying, 'I want to know why he's in VIP!'" Ted Hull told NBC News.
"All that is a name and number," Hull said. "It's a small, fully functional, self-contained cell unit for high-profile inmates."
The VIP unit he is being held in has a shower and a bed.
"There's no special privileges for him," added Hull. "There's nothing special about him beyond the notoriety of his particular situation."
Manafort, 69, was ordered to jail last week after his $10 million bail was revoked in response to charges of witness tampering. Manafort, indicted in both Washington and Virginia on a series of mostly financial-related charges, including defrauding the United States and conspiring to launder money, was sent to jail Friday. The longtime political operator and businessman had been on home confinement in Alexandria, Virginia, and was wearing an electronic monitoring device.
His trial is set to being in September in Washington, D.C.
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