(CNN) Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort will be arraigned Thursday afternoon in New York City on state fraud charges, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN.

He plans to plead not guilty and to fight the charges on the state's double jeopardy grounds, according to his defense lawyer, Todd Blanche.

Manafort is currently in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, a federal prison.

The arraignment places him in the public eye again after his case drew enormous attention during the special counsel's office probe. During the Russia investigation, Manafort was among the first people charged with crimes and he became a top target for prosecutors.

After his conviction by a jury last summer in that investigation, he pleaded guilty and agreed to help special counsel Robert Mueller, only to then lie to investigators and a grand jury, a federal judge ruled, prompting the end of Manafort's cooperation.

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