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Charges related to bank fraud, tax charges. So this is the moment where this courtroom will now finally be hearing from manaforts essentially his number two, his former right hand man, rick gates. And gates is the prosecutions key witness. He will be the next person to testify. Lets go first to cnns caris beganel. She is just outside the courtroom in alexandria, virginia. Tell me, when will this happen . Mere minutes . We have one more witness to finish testified today. Thats manaforts accountant. Rick gates is the witness thats up next. Many of thes attorney said that in court. This all came about as one of manaforts attorneys sort of dropped a bombshell alleging that rick gates embezzleled millions of dollars from Paul Manafort. He asked the accountant would that have been something she would have looikd to have known. She said she would. He teed all of it up by making
it appear that rick gates was the main person he dealt with. ....
Their lifetimes. kara just mentioned he had been his deputy for 20 years. but rick gates goes way back with paul manafort to when he interned at his lobbying firm. exactly right. he was his research assistant. wow. he did that for a while. and then he came back in 2006. that s when he worked hand in hand with paul manafort. brooke, that s why rick gates will be on the stand for this particular trial. because he will know impactly how this alleged scheme of paul many of the s operated. he will be able to tell the jury exactly what paul manafort directed him to do. you know, of course the government is alleging here that they hid these foreign bank accounts. they hid all the millions that they made from lobbying in the ukraine. so that s what rick gates will be able to tell the jury. of course the defense is planning to go on the attack here, as kara mentioned. they are going to say, no, this was rick gates embezzleling money, stealing millions from ....