Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts.
BREAKING: Rick Gates in trial:
Prosecutor: "Were you involved in any criminal activity with Mr. Manafort?"
Gates: "Yes."
Prosecutor: "Did you commit any crimes with Mr. Manafort?"
Gates: "Yes."https://t.co/kdrUxk2XiK
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 6, 2018
In court now:
Prosecutor on Mueller’s team asks Rick Gates if he committed crimes with Paul Manafort.
“Yes,” Gates says.
First time a senior Trump campaign official has confessed to a crime on the stand.
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) August 6, 2018
Geez.
Gates also testified in trial that he was arrested and has entered into a plea agreement with the government. The prosecutor entered the plea agreement into evidence. https://t.co/piWO5mbdVE
— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 6, 2018
This could get ugly, folks.
Rick Gates testifies that he and Paul Manafort had 15 foreign accounts they did not report to the federal government, and knew it was illegal. He said he did not submit the required forms "at Mr. Manafort's direction."
— David P Gelles (@gelles) August 6, 2018
BREAKING: Rick Gates admits on stand he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from Manafort.
— justin jouvenal (@jjouvenal) August 6, 2018
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Gates said he stole the money from Manafort by submitting to him false expense reports. Those expenses paid to him came out of the foreign bank accounts in Cyprus that Gates said he and Manafort knowingly did not disclose to the federal government.
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) August 6, 2018
Yikes.
Hoo boy https://t.co/lbz3hIVGbU
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) August 6, 2018
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets.