Rick Gates, Trump’s former deputy campaign chairman, says he personally told two lobbyists hired by Paul Manafort that a think tank they were representing was actually a front for the government of Ukraine
Rick Gates, President Donald Trump’s former deputy campaign chairman, testified on Thursday that he personally told two lobbyists hired by Paul Manafort that a think tank they were representing was actually a front for the government of Ukraine.
laid out by special counsel Robert Mueller that Manafort — the former Trump campaign chairman and Gates’ boss — acknowledged as true as part of his plea deal with the government.Sign Up Gates also told Mercury that it would be “representing the Government of Ukraine” in Washington, according to a Feb. 21, 2012, email obtained by Mueller and mentioned inMercury and the Podesta Group registered to lobby for the think tank at the time but failed to register as foreign agents, which is required by law for lobbying done on behalf of foreign governments or political parties.
Trout didn’t address whether Gates had told Weber the client would be the Ukrainian government before the work began. But he said the “only client Mr. Weber ever thought he was working for was the ECFMU.” Mueller decided that potential wrongdoing by Mercury and the Podesta Group was beyond his remit and referred the investigation to prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, who haven’t brought charges yet.
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