Tag: Rick Gates

Latest Twist in Russia Investigation Involves Unnamed Member of Congress

The following article by Stephanie Akin was posted on the Roll Call website February 23, 2018:

Rick Gates’ pleaded guilty to lying about meeting that matched dinner with Rohrabacher

Former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates leaves the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse after a court hearing on the conditions of his release on Nov. 6, 2017. Credit: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo

The wide-ranging investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign took an unexpected diversion to Capitol Hill on Friday, when former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about a meeting between his boss Paul Manafort and an unnamed member of Congress.

Gates admitted, according to court documents, that the 2013 meeting was part of a secret multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign for the Ukrainian government and its Russian-backed president, Viktor Yanukovych. Gates also pleaded guilty to conspiring with Manafort to hide the millions of dollars they were paid by the Ukrainian government. Continue reading “Latest Twist in Russia Investigation Involves Unnamed Member of Congress”

Lawyers for Rick Gates ask to leave Mueller-probe case, citing ‘irreconcilable differences’ with their client

The following article by Spencer S. Hsu was posted on the Washington Post website February 7, 2018:

Rick Gates, center, arrives at the Prettyman Federal Courthouse on Jan. 16. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Lawyers for Rick Gates, the co-defendant of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, cited unspecified “irreconcilable differences” with their client in asking to leave the case, but a federal judge did not immediately rule on their request after a sealed hearing Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson of Washington took the matter under advisement after a nearly 90-minute hearing, held behind closed doors to preserve the secrecy of attorney-client communications.

Gates’s attorneys Shanlon Wu of Washington and Walter Mack and Annemarie McAvoy of New York moved Feb. 1 to withdraw as counsel in a shake-up in the pending prosecution by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. Continue reading “Lawyers for Rick Gates ask to leave Mueller-probe case, citing ‘irreconcilable differences’ with their client”

Lawyers for Rick Gates withdraw from Russia case

The following article by Darren Samuelsohn was posted on the Politico website February 1, 2018:

Rick Gates, left, with Donald Trump in 2016.Evan Vucci/AP

Three attorneys representing Rick Gates told a federal court Thursday they are immediately withdrawing as counsel for the former Donald Trump campaign aide, who is fighting special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of him on money laundering and other charges.

Lawyers Shanlon Wu, Walter Mack and Annemarie McAvoy said in a two-page motion that they would explain the reasons for their abrupt move in documents filed under seal with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

“The document speaks for itself,” McAvoy told POLITICO, declining further comment. Continue reading “Lawyers for Rick Gates withdraw from Russia case”

‘This is a nothing burger’: How conservative media reacted to the Mueller indictments

The following article by Eli Rosenberg was posted on the Washington Post website October 31, 2017:

The revelation Monday of charges against three former Trump campaign officials in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe into possible Russian influence in American politics delivered a sharp jolt to the news cycle.

Anticipation over the arrests had been high for days after news that the first charges in Mueller’s investigation were imminent had seeped out over the weekend. And the documents outlining allegations against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, business partner Rick Gates and former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, laid out what investigators had found in unvarnished detail. Continue reading “‘This is a nothing burger’: How conservative media reacted to the Mueller indictments”