Mueller Files More Charges Against Former Trump Aide Gates
- Special counsel charges him with conspiracy, false statement
- Manafort protege is scheduled to appear Friday afternoon
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U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed conspiracy and false-statement counts against former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates as a person familiar with the matter said he is poised to plead guilty.
Gates is scheduled to appear in court on Friday afternoon in Washington, where he was first indicted Oct. 27 with Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, on charges of money laundering and hiding offshore bank accounts. A guilty plea would come a day after Mueller ratcheted up pressure on Gates and Manafort, his longtime business associate, by unsealing a new indictment charging both men with bank and tax fraud.