Donald Trump’s former campaign manager and his longtime business partner turned themselves in to the FBI on Monday morning, following indictments from the team led by Special Counsel Bob Mueller.Ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort and his reported “right-hand man” Rick Gates face 12 separate charges, including “conspiracy against the United States,” money laundering, and failing to register as lobbyists for foreign entities, including the Putin-backed former president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych.The charge sheet, which you can read embedded in full below, describes schemes in which:
- Manafort and Gates allegedly stashed tens of millions of dollars overseas and never reported it to the federal government.
- Gates laundered about $3 million from offshore accounts, and Manafort laundered about $18 million. “More than $75,000,000 flowed through the offshore accounts,” according to the indictment.
- While lobbying on behalf of Yanukovych, Manafort and Gates never registered as representing foreign interests — as required by federal law — and took steps to obfuscate the association.