March 15, 2018
Paul Manafort on Wednesday made his latest move to defeat a slew of money laundering and foreign lobbying charges brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, saying in court filings that Mueller's appointment improperly gave him a "blank check" to investigate anything arising from the Russia investigation, however attenuated.
March 06, 2018
Michael Flynn, Rick Gates and others who face prosecution by Special Counsel Robert Mueller have cut plea deals, so why hasn't Paul Manafort? White collar defense attorneys have a few ideas.
February 28, 2018
A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday set a mid-September jury trial date for President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort to face special counsel allegations of money laundering and the intentional obfuscation of his role lobbying for Ukrainian politicians as a "foreign agent."
February 23, 2018
Richard Gates, an ex-business associate of President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and himself a former member of the campaign, pled guilty Friday to charges brought as a part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
February 22, 2018
Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Thursday unsealed a slew of new tax- and bank fraud-related criminal charges against President Donald Trump's former campaign officials Paul Manafort and Richard Gates, alleging they filed false income tax returns and failed to report foreign bank accounts.
February 14, 2018
A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday expressed impatience with snags in setting a trial date for President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Manafort's former business partner Rick Gates III, and also the extent to which the criminal case has so far been kept under wraps.
February 07, 2018
The public got a peek into why attorneys for Richard Gates III, the indicted business partner of President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, asked to quit the case after four months' work when a D.C. federal judge on Wednesday unsealed a note citing "irreconcilable differences."
February 01, 2018
Attorneys for Richard W. Gates III, the indicted business partner of President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, on Thursday asked to pull out of representing him in the case a week after reports that Gates had hired a white collar trial and investigations pro from Sidley Austin LLP.
January 16, 2018
A D.C. federal judge declined Tuesday to set a spring trial date for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his business partner Richard W. Gates III after lawyers for the pair said they were overwhelmed by the number of documents produced by prosecutors in the case.
January 12, 2018
Paul Manafort, the indicted former campaign manager to President Donald Trump, may face trial as soon as May, according to a filing Friday by the special counsel spearheading an investigation into the Trump campaign that also outlined plans for future evidence exchange.