he is charged with false bank returns. and bank fraud. so what they re trying to do here is to show he did this knowingly. the defense is trying to say they relied on gates and they re the innocent victim of rick gates bad acts. and he flipped on him and is working with the government and testifying against him. the reason they start with some of the extravagant living, in tax cases like this, they do a net worth analysis. she living above his reported income. therefore he had knowledge of another source of money beyond that which he filed taxes with