Rick Gates spills the beans on how he and Paul Manafort hid millions
Alexandria — Rick Gates, the prosecution’s star witness in the trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chief Paul Manafort, testified on Monday that he conspired with his ex-boss to hide millions of dollars in foreign bank accounts from US tax authorities. In riveting testimony before a packed courtroom, the 46-year-old also admitted to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from Manafort during the decade the pair worked together as political consultants. Gates, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy in February and is co-operating with the government in exchange for a more lenient prison sentence, took the stand on the fifth day of Manafort’s trial on tax and bank fraud charges in Alexandria, Virginia. Wearing a dark blue suit and a gold tie, Gates addressed his attention to prosecutors and the judge and studiously avoided the gaze of his longtime business partner Manafort at the defence table. Manafort is the first defendant to go to court to fight charges stemming from sp...
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