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Right? but it's remarkable in a smaller way because gates and manafort have worked together for years and years and years. they've just been indicted together in a 12-count felony indictment. but they're not necessarily handling their legal jeopardy in the same way. here's something to know about these guys. at his indictment yesterday morning, rick gates does not appear to have had a lawyer. he was not represented by counsel. just in case you were wondering if this indictment had come as a surprise. we expect rick gates will be represented by a lawyer when he turns up to court on thursday. bu...

Iota of financial information about manafort and gates. and part of what they have turned up thus far is that manafort and gates have each made wildly different public representations as to how much they're worth, as to how much money they have. start with gates here, and then we'll do manafort after. here's what this document unsealed by the court tonight says about gates. quote, recently in a february 2016 application for a line of credit, gates listed his and his wife's net worth as $30 million. he listed his own liquid net worth as $25 million. that said, other documents provide conflictin...

And i may be wrong about this, but i think this is also the first official representation by the government that manafort's business was staffed up in moscow. manafort himself has always described his business as operating in ukraine. he's always described himself as having no russian business ties. but the special counsel is now saying in this court filing that manafort was paid millions of dollars by russian oligarchs and that his business had staff in moscow. now, again, the purpose of this document is pretty specific. this is listing the special counsel's evidence that paul manafort and ri...

The irs, to using those accounts to shield their foreign income from taxes, those foreign bank accounts are also key to the allegations of money laundering, using expensive pieces of real estate and money moving in and out of those foreign accounts. well, what mueller's office has unsealed tonight with this federal court in d.c. is a new allegation that it was not just paul manafort and rick gates who controlled those foreign bank accounts, it was also, quote, a russian national, i'll quote to you from what the court unsealed tonight, quote, the indictment sets forth and charges the defendants...

Intensity supervision program the special counsel's office has declared manafort has a history of receiving millions of dollars from russian oligarchs. and the special counsel has put gates and manafort and by extension anybody else involved in this case, put them all on notice now that the special counsel's efforts to track this stuff down includes them going through both foreign and domestic bank records and also tax filings. they've got their taxes. so these documents just unsealed by the court tonight, we'll get a little bit of help later this hour as to whether this is a normal looking de...