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They were breaking the law in their desperation to do it. they were falsifying documents to make it look like he had more money. they were inventing page invoices to make it look like they had more money come income and doctors documents. the bookkeeper from manaforts company was turning them down for some stuff they were trying to get the bookkeeper to do and started faking these documents themselves. the details of that mad scramble for cash, that was the basis for all the new bank fraud and b...

The trump campaign, right up through that time when hes having the mad scramble to try to get his hands on millions of dollars in cash, he was in debt to russian interests to the tune of about 17 million including $7.8 million that he owed to a charming fellow named dapaska. right before manafort joined trumps campaign, manafort was in hawk to this guy for nearly $8 million. now part of this scheme that was described in yesterdays indictment is that sometimes manafort and gates would call someth...

United states because of the organized crime ties and he has people working for him all over the place including people talking to the press about this case hes pressing against manafort and gates but then manafort and gates sign on to be chairman of the donald trump for president campaign and all of a sudden again, the pressure seems to go away. quote, early in the presidential campaign deripaskas representatives accused him after fraud. after trump earned the nomination, deripaskas officials s...

Era that manafort ended up missing. rick gates becoming oca cooperating witness is a big leap forward in terms of how much of a window the mueller investigation is going to have into all different phases of the trump candidacy and presidency. rick gates plead guilty to two felonies. one of them is lying to the fbi. interestingly, this guilty plea for lying to the fbi is not for something that happened a long time ago but really, really recently. his lie to the fbi which he pled guilty and admits...

Issued a one-sentence statement saying it would not comment on matters involving manafort and rick gates as the pattmatters between them and special counsel are dated. that is despite todays new indictments and guilty pleadings specifically referencing events during and after the trump campaign following the guilty plea from trump deputy campaign chair rick gates today, the top democrat offered a different take and said quote, rick gates is in a position to observe the inner workings of the camp...

From 2006 to 2015 and before the trump presidential campaign. phase one manafort and gates were raking in tens of millions of dollars working for proputin interests overseas, special counsels office says they illegally hid the money offshore and disguised organizigins and d taxes on the money. those are the charges associated with what muellers office calls phase one. what was new in yesterdays indictment about manafort and gates was phase two of their scheme. which you can think of as the donal...

Whats hanging over rick gates right now is multiple years starting right away and hes already signed for it. so this cooperation deal that he signed today, these two charges he plead guilty to, this is put together as a very serious package for trumps deputy campaign manager. and therefore put as huge spotlight on what gates could possibly give mueller for his on going investigation and here is the part of it that i think is really important and i will just say so much of this is happening so fa...

After him for it. and simultaneously for some reason, paul manafort at the time was really scrambling to do anything he could to get his hands on millions of dollars in cash and this is right up until the point he joins the trump campaign. he then joined the trump campaign, the pressure eases off a bit in terms of this guy coming after him for the money and he starts communicating with this guy he owed the millions of dollars to. can we use my position on the campaign to get whole? can i offer h...

Manafort was in such a mad sk scramble for cash in late 2015 and 2016 but here is something to reup, to reread in light of current developments. this is from last summer, july 2017. quote, financial records from the secret of tax haven of cypress where paul manafort kept bank accounts during his years working in ukraine and investing with a russian oligarch indicate manafort had been in debt to prorussia interests for as much as $17 million before he joined donald trumps presidential campaign in...

That looks like a loan or at least it looks like he expected to get that money back from paul manafort and rick gates and we can tell that because he tried really hard to get it back. in 2014, this terrifying russian oligarch sued. they were supposed to be investing in something together but they run off with millions of dollars of his money and in august 2015, he moved the lawsuit from the cayman islands to the u.s., to virginia. he was really going after manafort and gates for millions of doll...