secretary of the army. koch allegedly loaned money under false pretenses. gate detailed how broke paul manafort was when he joined the trump campaign in march 2016 working at the time for no salary. gates said paul manafort's consulting firm had no clients then. and that they were at the time trying to secure another political consulting contract in ukraine. but had not yet been able to. in a 2015 e mail exchange. paul manafort was frustrated. wtf, manafort wrote to gates. how could i be blind saided like this, this after learning that taxes he was due to pay were much higher than he had anticipated. gates admitted he also supplied false information to banks in order to help paul manafort secure bank loans. gates testified that manafort made more than $5 million between 2011 and 2012. doing consulting work for ukrainian billionaire. gates went into detail.