Indicted!

News  |  Oct 30, 2017

UPDATE: Paul Manafort and Rick Gates have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them. Bail is set at $10 million for Manafort and $5 million for Gates. Both have surrendered their passports and are under house arrest. 

Manafort appeared in federal court. Gates did not show. Axios reports:

His court-appointed lawyer said he was invoking the 5th Amendment, and planned to hire private counsel.

The next hearing is scheduled for November 2nd. 


Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, Manafort's protégé and junior partner and Trump's deputy campaign chairman, have turned themselves in to the FBI. They are facing indictment on 12 charges, including conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts, being an unregistered agent of a foreign principal, and making false statements. 

CNN

Manafort arrived at the FBI's Washington field office Monday morning. He and Gates were indicted under seal on Friday, the source said. The two are being processed separately, according to a law enforcement official. They will later be transported to federal district court in Washington later Monday morning.

NYT

The charges against Mr. Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman were not immediately clear but represent a significant escalation in a special counsel investigation that has cast a shadow over the president’s first year in office. Also charged was Mr. Manafort’s former business associate Rick Gates, who was also told to surrender.

Mr. Manafort walked into the F.B.I.’s field office in Washington about 8:15 a.m. with his lawyer.

Mr. Gates is a longtime protégé and junior partner of Mr. Manafort. His name appears on documents linked to companies that Mr. Manafort’s firm set up in Cyprus to receive payments from politicians and businesspeople in Eastern Europe, records reviewed by The New York Times show.

Read the indictment. (DOJ)

Manafort and Gates Plead Not Guilty (Axios

Paul Manafort, Who Once Ran Trump Campaign, Surrenders to F.B.I. (NYT)

Manafort, Gates surrender to Mueller, source says (CNN)

Ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and associate indicted in special counsel probe (ABC News)

Bob Mueller Goes Big With Charges for Ex-Trump Campaign Boss Paul Manafort (Daily Beast)