The 12 Charges Against Paul Manafort And Rick Gates Have Been Released

Former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort and his associate Rick Gates have been indicted in the Mueller probe. According to reports, Manafort has already turned himself over to federal authorities.

At the time of the initial report, we we didn’t have any information on the charges. Now we do. There are 12 charges, which include conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading FARA statements, false statements and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts.

Yeah…conspiracy against the United States? THAT doesn’t sound good.

JUST IN: Special counsel’s indictment of Manafort and Gates contains 12 charges, including conspiracy against the United States. pic.twitter.com/6LXX7fkZVw

— Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) October 30, 2017

As bad as this sounds, there’s one key allegation that’s not there. There’s absolutely no charges for allegations related to collusion with Russia. I repeat, the charges appear to be unrelated to the left’s favorite subject, Trump-Russia collusion.

There are no allegations of collusion with Russian operatives in the indictment, which was issued by a Washington grand jury on Friday and unsealed after Manafort’s arrest.

Keep that in mind.

The charges center on Manafort’s and Gates’ involvement in an alleged money laundering operation utilizing offshore companies. Manafort and Gates, who were partners at the lobbying firm Davis Manafort, are also accused of hiding income from consulting work they did in Ukraine for a political party affiliated with Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine’s former president.

The indictment says that between 2006 and 2014, Manafort and Gates failed to disclose lobbying and public relations work they conducted at the direction of Yanukovych and his political party, the Party of Regions.

The indictment alleges that Manafort and Gates were in direct contact with Yanukovych as part of the consulting contract.

And again– Manafort was only officially involved with the Trump campaign for five months.

We’ll update you as more information comes out.