Manafort Accountant Recalls Backdated Documents: Trial Update
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors are walking the jury in the trial of Paul Manafort through records to back their claim that the former Trump campaign chairman deceived his own financial advisers to hide his foreign accounts and income from U.S. tax authorities.
Cindy Laporta, a Manafort accountant, recalled how she felt conflicted after Manafort’s right-hand man, Rick Gates, sent her phony, backdated loan documents that would lower his taxes and help him get a bank loan as his income plunged.