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That the judge t.s. ellis said last week can help them make a conspiracy case against manafort. earlier today one of manafort's former account at that particular times cindy laporta said gates was one she repeatedly dealt with and made statements that were very obviously phony but submitted them to the bank or irs anyway. mueller team alleges it was all part of a scheme designed to lower mr. manafort's tax bill. taxes are complicated he just made a mistake there should being an audit but not a federal case. that's what this trial is focusing exclusively on. allegations of financial crimes. the...

Taxes and tricked banks he was working with we do not know how long gates is going to be on the stand. he did just start few minutes ago. manafort is sitting at the defense table just looking at him. trish? >> trish: thank you very much. what should you be making of these new developments we are going to attorney amly compagno. what are you making of it. >> at this point the prosecution has really hinged their bet on this. they, to them, this is their star witness, right? and now we have seen and heard hints from defense well, gates might have embezzled millions of dollars from manafort allege...

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