Multiple counts including conspiracy, Money Laundering and acting as an unregistered foreign agent. After prosecutors hit him with another round of felony charges for a total of 31, rick gates flipped. He pleaded guilty to two charges while agreeing to cooperate and provide information to Robert Muellers team. This was a Pivotal Moment in the special counsel investigation. Rick gates who knew so much about the inner workings at the very highest levels of the Trump Campaign was now willing to spill secrets to Robert Muellers team. Cooperation agreement he just signed is probably a nightmare scenario for a number of other people. Rick gates has been potentially witness to much more than manafort saw. Rick gates becoming a cooperating witness is a big leap forward into how much of a window the Mueller Investigation is going to have in all different phases of the trump candidacy and presidency. That was february 2018. Rick gates pleading guilty and agreeing to cooperate with mueller and pr
Executive production. Whats executive production, you ask . No idea. Thanks to you at home for the audit doesnt say. Joining us this hour. We have lots to get to, but we but hey, theres that 27 start with news about a key million accounted for. Figure in trump world and now a nothing to see here. Now this week a new report from key witness in the mueller investigators with the house investigation. Rick gates served as deputy Oversight Committee finds that chairman of the trump campaign. He leveraged ties to president gates had been Paul Manaforts trump and the administration to right hand deputy working for promote his own interests, including by pushing mike ukrainian oligarchs before manafort joined the trump flynns Saudi Nuclear plan. Campaign and brought gates overnight chairman elijah along. Manafort was pushed out in cummings wrote august of 2016, but rick gates stayed on through election day. Gates then served as the number two official on the trump nug as an example, the report
Two official on the trump inaugural committee. Because he held those key positions rick gates was an up close first person eye witness to what was going on inside the Trump Campaign at a very high level. In october of 2017 he was first charged alongside manafort on multiple counts including conspiracy, Money Laundering and acting as an unregistered foreign agent. After prosecutors hit him with another round of felony charges for a total of 31, rick gates flipped. He pleaded guilty to two charges while agreeing to cooperate and a cockroach can survive heresubmerged ttle guy. Provide information to robert underwater for 30 minutes. Wow. Muellers team. Yeah. This was a Pivotal Moment in the special counsel investigation. Rick gates who knew so much about the inner workings at the not getting in today. Very highest levels of the trump terminix. Defenders of home. Campaign was now willing to spill secrets to Robert Muellers team. Cooperation agreement he just signed is probably a nightmare
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