>> reporter: things only got worse. in october last year, gates surrender after being indicted by a federal grand jury. court filings exposed what prosecutors describe as an 11-year scheme in which gates and manafort laundered tens of millions of dollars they made doing foreign lobbying work. prosecutors say the two funneled $75 million through offshore accounts. among the charges, conspiracy to launder money and failing to report foreign bank accounts. the white house quickly tried to distance itself from him. >> look, i think that those are issues that took place long before they were involved with the president. >> reporter: but there is no denying gates' history with the trump campaign. gates' ties to manafort and his activities could mean he was briefed on the june 2016 trump tower meeting which manafort attend, along with don jr. and jared kushner. a russian lawyer had promised to give them dirt on hillary clinton. gates and manafort reportedly also once e-mailed about trump