passports, traveled under three passports. even people that sort of travel for a living said that ten passport applications is i never heard of ten. i was a foreign correspondent for the post for six years and it was not uncommon for a correspondent who covered the middle east, for example, to have two passports because if you were going to some arab countries you didn t want the israel stamp in it and that sort of thing. that explains two or three, but not that would explain two. i never heard of more than two. the other reason is that if one passport is at some embassy getting a visa stamp and that s delayed you have a passport you can still travel. there s not the hassle. but that doesn t that doesn t get me past two at the most it gets you to three but that s i never heard of anyone with three. can you talk about, you know, my understanding is that in the president s mind, the relief of
two days after former trump campaign chairman paul manafort was taken into fbi custody, along with colleague rick gates, we re learning pretty surprising new details about manafort s lifestyle. it reads like something out of a movie, multiple passports, fake names, and a lot of cash. cnn s jessica snyder has details. reporter: three passports, a fake name, and dozens of bank accounts, all revealed in court documents. special counsel robert mueller calling it all a history of deceptive and misleading conduct on the part of donald trump s former campaign chairman paul manafort and former manafort deputy rick gates. the two are under house arrest after a federal court judge agreed with the government that both men are flight risks. manafort currently has three u.s. passports, each of them under a different number. this alone, however, is not illegal. the prosecutor said he has submitted ten passport applications in, roughly, the last ten years. this year manafort has travelled to mexico
underscore how jittery everybody is with vehicles. we re learning now details about paul manafort. one of the first people indicted in the federal investigation into possible collusion between the campaign and russia. those details, like his possession of three different passpor passports, u.s. passports, may explain why manafort is under house arrest with bond set at $10 million. jessica schneider joins us with more. what other details are emerging with those passports and also an issue with a phone? prosecutors argued that paul manafort was a flight risk. now we find out why. not only did he have three different u.s. passports with different numbers but he submitted ten passport applications over the past ten or more years. court documents say he traveled all over the globe in the past year. it was this right here using a
gates apparently frequently changed banks and opened 55 accounts with 13 separate institutions. again, these are from court documents. jessica schneider with the very latest on this. what are you learning? prosecutors laying out really quite a complicated financial and travel web for both of these men. first to paul manafort. not only did he have three different passported all with different numbers, but he submitted ten passport applications over the past ten or so years. manafort travelled the globe in the past year, but it was really his travel to mexico, china, and ecuador that is raising the questions here. he allegedly traveled to those three places with a phone and an e-mail account that was registered in a fake name. so prosecutors looking into that. now, rick gates, meanwhile, he frequently changed banks and opened and closed accounts, according to prosecutors. in all, he had 55 accounts with 13 financial institutions. some of those accounts were in cypress, as prosecutors s
that both men are flight risks. manafort has three u.s. passports each of them under a different number. this is not illegal. the prosecutor said he submitted ten passport applications in the last ten years, he s travelled to mexico, eccdoer and china, also in the past year he travelled to tokyo, shanghai, madrid, cancun, panama city. and they were both frequent travellers to cyprus. he wrote that his assets were between $19 million and $13 million and may 2016. but in some months, like when he was serving as trump s national campaign chairman in august 2016 he said his assets were worth 28 million but wrote he had 63 million in assets on a different