BREAKING: Mueller Files New Charges Against Manafort And Gates

This just in. Mueller has filed new charges against Manafort and Gates. If you recall, they were originally indicted on 12 charges last year. Those charges included 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.

Important to note: There were no allegations related to Trump-Russia collusion.

Well, there are more charges now. Here’s the deal, via the Hill:

A federal court in Virginia on Thursday returned a 32-count superseding indictment charging Manafort and Gates with committing tax fraud, failing to file reports on foreign bank and financial accounts and bank fraud conspiracy.

“Manafort and Gates generated tens of millions of dollars in income as a result of their Ukraine work,” the indictment says. “From approximately 2006 through the present, Manafort and Gates engaged in a scheme to hide income from United States authorities, while enjoying the use of the money.”

In addition:

In what appears to be a fresh accusation, the new indictment alleges that Manafort, with Gates’ help, extracted money from his real estate holdings between 2015 and “at least” January 2017 in order to fraudulently secure over $20 million in loans. The two allegedly inflated Manafort’s and his company’s income and failed to disclose debts in order to be approved for the loans.

“In the second part of the scheme, between approximately 2015 and at least January 2017, when the Ukraine income dwindled after Yanukovych fled to Russia, Manafort, with the assistance of Gates, extracted money from Manafort’s United States real estate by, among other things, using those properties as collateral to obtain loans from multiple financial institutions,” the indictment states.

“Manafort and Gates fraudulently secured more than twenty million dollars in loans by falsely inflating [Manafort’s] and his company’s income and by failing to disclose existing debt in order to qualify for the loans.”

You can read the full thing here.

New charges filed by Special Counsel Mueller against Manafort and Gates https://t.co/0HmywcVPdg

— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) February 22, 2018

The indictment includes numerous tax and bank fraud charges.

Manafort and Gates have already been charged with conspiracy and money laundering in federal court in Washington, D.C. They have pleaded not guilty to those charges.

— NPR (@NPR) February 22, 2018

The first indictment against Manafort and Gates had 12 counts. This superseding indictment has 32 counts

— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) February 22, 2018

The original Manafort/Gates indictment was in DC. This one was in the Eastern District of Virginia

— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) February 22, 2018

16 – false individual income tax returns
7 – failure to file reports on foreign financial accounts
5 – bank fraud conspiracy
4 – bank fraud.

— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) February 22, 2018

BREAKING: Special Counsel Mueller files 32-count indictment against Manafort and Gates, including tax and bank fraud charges – https://t.co/kdrUxk2XiK pic.twitter.com/NltfJbhzYl

— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 22, 2018

Mueller is indicting Manafort and Gates on financial and tax violations. Somehow, I missed the Russian collusion piece. Millions of tax payer dollars to do a job that the FBI and DoJ is charged with. This is truly an out of control investigation.

— Jack Bones (@JackBones10) February 22, 2018

This indictment of Manafort and Gates is so pathetic. Tax returns? I’m sorry, but where is the collusion? Mueller is supposed to investigate the Trump campaign colluding with Russia. Paul Manafort and Rick Gates lying about tax returns and committing fraud, is NOT collusion.

— Mike (@mike_Zollo) February 22, 2018

Soooo…that’s the current situation. To be continued…