that russia did this interference campaign it would somehow delegitimize trump s electoral victory. and joyce vance, something that speaks to your line of work, our friend ken vogual tweeted out this. new court filing, rick gates is still cooperating with prosecutors and is a potential witness in the trials of greg craig for lying about ukrainian work, roger stone for lying about wiki leaks and paul manafort. what is the take away here? rick gates seems to be one of the most successful cooperators that the mueller investigation produced. i don t think that there is anything very surprising here. we knew that he would cooperate. the beginning work on a report is relatively routine. it has to happen before a
that speaks to your line of work, our friend ken vogual tweeted out this. new court filing, rick gates is still cooperating with prosecutors and is a potential witness in the trials of greg craig for lying about ukrainian work, roger stone for lying about wiki leaks and paul manafort. what is the take away here? rick gates seems to be one of the most successful cooperators that the mueller investigation produced. i don t think that there is anything very surprising here. we knew that he would cooperate. the beginning work on a report is relatively routine. it has to happen before a defendant can be sentenced. he has to have access to it sufficiently in advance to review it and make any objections. i think the biggest piece of information we get out of this filing is that apparently gates cooperation is coming to an end. he won t for instance apparently be a witness in anything to do with the inaugual investigation that is believed to be underway. and now phil mud by way of
over whether or not the jury will get to see 50 or so exhibits. these are exhibits that the manafort team says are prejudicial, that they re irrelevant to the charges. manafort is going on trial on bank and tax fraud charges, so the manafort team wants these exhibits and this evidence not shown to the jury. the government responded this afternoon saying that this is evidence that shows that manafort made $60 million working for the ukrainian government, these are e-mails, memos, photos that they show full, the full sweep of manafort s ukrainian work. essentially they say this is evidence that s going to be corroborating evidence for some of the witnesses that are going to describe what manafort was doing and why he was using these bank accounts in cypress and other foreign locations to hide money that he did not report to the irs. this is very key evidence, the government says, to this trial,