Gates Testifies He Stole From Manafort and Helped Him Break Law
- Manafort’s right-hand man breaks silence after guilty plea
- Wealthy Ukrainian businessmen wired money to Cyprus, he says
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Paul Manafort’s former right-hand man, Rick Gates, broke his silence Monday and offered dramatic inside testimony about how wealthy Ukrainian businessmen used offshore accounts and shell companies to pay his boss millions of dollars for political consulting work.
Gates, 46, appeared at Manafort’s bank and tax-fraud trial, where he told jurors that he worked to help his boss conceal millions of dollars in income from the Internal Revenue Service, hide offshore accounts from tax authorities, and lie to banks that loaned money. The crimes Gates described largely predated Manafort’s stint as Donald Trump’s presidential campaign chairman in 2016.