A federal grand jury in Virginia has handed up a new 32 count indictment against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his former top aide, Rick Gates.
In all, the two men face 16 counts related to filing false individual income tax returns, seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts, five counts of bank fraud conspiracy, and four counts of bank fraud.
Manafort and Gates are accused of making tens of millions from lobbying work in Ukraine and failing to properly account for it in the U.S.
All told, special counsel Robert Mueller said more than $75 million was funneled through offshore accounts in Cyprus, the Grenadines, the Seychelles and the United Kingdom, and the two laundered more than $30 million to pay for personal expenses.
Manafort, prosecutors allege, spent $12 million in tax-sheltered money on his home in the Hamptons, plus another $655,000 for landscaping. There were also $600,000 in payments to a clothing store in Beverly Hills.
Gates improperly disclosed money to pay his mortgage, his children’s tuition and on renovations to his home in Virginia.
These new charges are in addition to charges already filed against Manafort and Gates in federal court in Washington. The two men were indicted in October on money laundering charges, failing to properly register as foreign agents, and lying to federal officials about lobbying and other activities that took place before and are unrelated to Trump's presidential campaign.
They pleaded not guilty to the previous charges.
ABC News' Adam Katersky contributed to this report.
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