Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. His plea agreement, including that he stole some hundreds of thousands of dollars from Paul Manafort, rick gates did, by filing false expense claims. So really, just a long list. It was remarkable to be there in the courtroom as rick gates over the course of 80 minutes detailing that long list of alleged crimes. So allegedly, theyre both Stealing Money through not paying taxes and other means, and then gates is also Stealing Money from manafort . Thats exactly right. So you have listen, this is one of those cases when i was inside there, anderson, having followed a mob priel or two, it struck me as you had the case of the bob boss there with his capo testifying against him. Of course in many cases like this, the person who is gates witness doesnt have the cleanest record himself. And that certainly holds true for rick gates. I should mention he also pleaded guilty to lying to federal prosecuto
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Knowing that was illegal. Cnn chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto is covering the trial. He joins us. Now what more did gates say on the stand . Anderson, you had the deputy there sitting within ten feet of his former his longtime boss, documenting by his accounts numerous crimes, alleged crimes by his boss, Paul Manafort. And the list started with them setting up 15 Foreign Bank Accounts which they did not report to the government for the purposes of hiding taxes. He said that they filed false income tax returns. He said they failed to file as foreign agents even though they were working as agents for a Foreign Government, in this case the prorussian Government Of Ukraine at the time. And rick gates said he did all of this, his words, all of this at the direction of Paul Manafort, saying these are crimes we did together, in
and that certainly holds true for rick gates. I should
and that certainly holds true for rick gates. i should mention he also pleaded guilty to lying to federal prosecutors that is something you can expect the defense to bring up when they have their chance to question him. one final note i would make, anderson, is there you had paul manafort at the defendants table. about ten feet away was rick gates facing 90 degrees to him. rick gates did not make contact with paul manafort. but paul manafort sitting there with his arms crossed did not let his gaze leave the face of rick gates as he was making these claims. he was not happy. he was very stressed. you could sense some anger in his eyes as he was watching rick gates give this testimony against him. wow. and more from gates tomorrow. jim sciutto, thanks very much. i want to bring in our legal team, former federal prosecutor jennifer rodgers and another former federal prosecutor, cnn analyst renato mariotti. renato, you said rick gates was the most important gates in the manafort trial by
ukraine as lobbyists and political consultants. a decade later, in 2016, manafort joined the trump campaign and brought his trusted deputy along with him. paul manafort has done a fantastic job. and all of paul s people. paul brought on his staff. and we really do we have a great staff of talented people. reporter: eventually, manafort took over the campaign and gates became his number two. gates traveled extensively with then candidate trump, and together he and manafort oversaw trump s vice presidential pick and devised a general election strategy. i have to credit manafort and gates for putting so much of that together before we arrived. gates got caught up in controversy early on. sources say he oversaw the process of putting together the plagiarized speech melania trump gave at the republican national convention, which he denied. the only limits of the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for
knowing that was illegal. cnn chief national security correspondent jim sciutto is covering the trial. he joins us. now what more did gates say on the stand? anderson, you had the deputy there sitting within ten feet of his former his long-time boss, documenting by his accounts numerous crimes, alleged crimes by his boss, paul manafort. and the list started with them setting up 15 foreign bank accounts which they did not report to the government for the purposes of hiding taxes. he said that they filed false income tax returns. he said they failed to file as foreign agents even though they were working as agents for a foreign government, in this case the pro-russian government of ukraine at the time. and rick gates said he did all of this, his words, all of this at the direction of paul manafort, saying these are crimes we did together, in