Feds hold off on listing Paul Manafort’s seized Bridgehampton home

Those who lived in Bridgehampton next to Paul Manafort Jr., the onetime campaign manager for President Donald Trump, recently told the New Yorker that he made for a lousy neighbor. Manafort, who pleaded guilty in September 2018 to charges of conspiracy and financial fraud as part of a deal with former special counsel Robert Mueller III, somehow managed to build “his house three and a half feet taller than what the zoning allowed,” ruining views for his neighbor, Lewis Berman. Manafort also failed to secure his garbage, which led to Berman’s dog getting sick, he told the outlet. As part of Manafort’s plea agreement, the federal government seized five of his properties, including the home he owns at 174 Jobs Lane. The Real Deal reported this month on the government listing Manafort’s Trump Tower condo at $3.6 million and his Soho condo at $3.6 million. Federal officials have offered both up for sale. Berman told the New Yorker that the U.S. Marshals Service, which recently sought to sell East Hampton’s Arc House, is still waiting for permission from the U.S. Department of Justice to list the property. In the meantime, they’ve let the grass grow nearly a foot tall. The Justice Department did recently intervene to spare Manafort from a summer at Rikers Island. On Thursday, he pleaded not guilty to state fraud charges filed in New York. As for his mansion, which has 10 bedrooms, six bathrooms and a pool, it could fetch up to $10 million. [The New Yorker]