Also wired money to some of these vendors that we heard about last week, including the clothing people that ostrich jacket. He explained how those money flows went there. So hes connecting the dots for prosecutors. He also explained how he helped falsify documents at manaforts request at the banks so manafort could get mortgages and he also explained how they falsified his tax returns, explaining how they moved things that should have been income to loans and back to back dated documents. At One Point Manafort was under financial duress. Prosecutors showed an email of manafort sending to gates which manafort says w. T. F. , we need to discuss options. This is a disaster. Hes Instructing Gates to help him come up with some solution with the accountants about how to fix his tax returns so he doesnt get hit with quite a large of bill as he was expecting. So gates testimony is continuing and we expected the crossexamination to begin in a
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try to argue why would gates be lying about all this when most of the time when he wasn t stealing manafort s money, manafort was the one benefitting from it. i think it could have been a risky move to put him on given the case went in so well. if you re a juror sitting in this courtroom, there aren t any cameras, we go by bits and pieces we get, we know down to the color in the courtroom. i was reading yesterday describing the death stair manafort was giving gates up on the stand. today now they re starting to look somewhat in the same direction at one another. how much of that matters to jurors? it matters a lot because jurors are watching every single thing that s going on, every nuance, every glance. they re impacted by this. you know what i found interesting, when he was able to when manafort says outloud to his lawyer, no, you got the wrong exhibit number, essentially, it s 257 i think what it was. what is the jury going to take