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The property includes an inground pool and attached garage and was renovated in 1992, according to data on Realtor.com. The 1.5-acre property was most recently assessed by the city at just under $2.5 million. Rick Gates’ biography also says he’s a 1994 graduate of the College of William and Mary where he studied government. A vehicle pulled into the house’s driveway Monday night which 8News believes may have been Gates, returning from court.
The app features breaking news alerts, live video, weather radar, traffic incidents, closings and delays and more. The Times reported in August 2016 that Ukrainian investigators found Manafort’s name in an off-the-books, handwritten ledger detailing secret payments — including $12.7 million to Manafort from Yanukovych’s Party of Regions. Manafort joined the Trump campaign in March 2016 to help with delegate counting ahead of the Republican National Convention, as some Republicans hoped to use arcane delegate procedures to wrest the nomination from Trump at the convention in Cleveland. Later in 2016, however, the FBI restarted the surveillance as part of its investigation into Russian meddling. Investigators’ interest in Manafort was reignited due to intercepted communications between Manafort and suspected Russian operatives, and among the Russians themselves, CNN has reported. A secret order authorized by the court that handles the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act began after Manafort became the subject of an FBI investigation that began in 2014, sources previously told CNN.
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Residents say a couple of police cars patrol the normally quiet street and officers talk to neighbors about what's going on. Many were surprised to hear about the Richmond connection to an international story. Jackson has ordered all of the parties and lawyers to not make any public comments that could be prejudicial to the case. When Mr. Manafort joined the Trump campaign in March 2016, Mr. Gates became his deputy. However, when Mr. Manafort was ousted in August 2016, Mr. Gates remained and stayed mostly below the public radar.
In addition to Manafort’s Ukraine business dealings, his real estate dealings, overseas business ventures and bank accounts in offshore havens like Cyprus have also come under scrutiny. They are the first two officials in Trump’s orbit charged in connection with the special counsel investigation, which is exploring whether Trump’s actions surrounding the firing of former FBI Director James Comey amount to obstruction of justice. Mueller has taken a broad approach to his mandate that includes a focus on the financial dealings of Trump’s team. The Mueller investigation also resulted in a guilty plea from former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos.
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Before that, they lived on Hanover Avenue in the Fan District beginning in 2001, according to property records. The federal indictment released Monday refers to Gates as Paul Manafort’s ‘right-hand man,’ working for Manafort’s companies Davis Manafort Partners Inc. and DMP International. According to a press release from a Denver-based company ID Watchdog, Gates joined the board of directors for the consumer protection company in 2011 but resigned from the board on November 9, 2016 — one day after the presidential election. RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC/AP) — One of the two men indicted Monday in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election owns a home in Richmond. Jackson said she will consider releasing them from house arrest, but has concerns about "flight."
Matthew is a managing director at Harris Williams, an M&A investment bank based in Richmond. "I'm not sure they need to be under house arrest, lock and key, day in, day out, but I think if they leave and don't come back, we need to know where they went," Jackson said. According to city property records, Gates lived with his family for several years on Hanover Avenue in the Fan until 2007. Manafort separately filed a civil lawsuit last week against Mueller and the Justice Department, arguing that Mueller's appointment as special counsel by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was invalid. Manafort asked the judge to not only throw out the appointment order, but also to set aside the charges that Mueller's office is pursuing against him.
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According to a press release from a Denver-based company ID Watchdog, Gates joined the board of directors for the consumer protection company in 2011 but resigned from the board on November 9, 2016 – one day after the presidential election. While awaiting trial, Manafort was released on $10 million bond and Gates was released on $5 million bond. Prosecutors described them as flight risks, and as a condition of pretrial release, both men surrendered their passports and were placed under house arrest. Army Lieutenant Colonel Richard W. Gates Jr., who is also the founder and CEO of the Gates Group International, a management and information technology firm based in Prince George County, Virginia. An army brat, Gates was born in Fort Lee, Virginia, and lived on several military installations in Kentucky, North Carolina, and Germany as a boy, before his family settled in Prince George, Virginia. After graduating from Prince George High School in 1990, Gates attended the College of William & Mary, earning a degree in government in 1994.
The project fell apart, and Deripaska sued Manafort and Gates in the Cayman Islands for mishandling his money. Deripaska, a Russian citizen, has offered to cooperate with Capitol Hill investigations in exchange for immunity. The indictment alleges that Gates was instrumental in helping Manafort defraud U.S. institutions and that they both concealed from the U.S. their work with the Ukraine and its political parties and leaders.
In order to foster transparent, civil conversation, please include your full name when posting comments. Social media profiles for Gates continued to list Richmond as his location as of Monday.
The charges are linked to an investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russia's alleged meddling in the election. Manafort and Gates have been under home confinement since they made their first court appearance on Oct. 30. They're facing a 12-count indictment that includes allegations of money laundering, failing to file reports about foreign financial holdings, failing to register as agents for the Ukrainian government, and making false statements about their lobbying activities overseas. Gates, who struck a plea deal with Federal prosecutors including an agreement to testify against Manafort, became the government's star witness during Manafort's trial. Gates said he concealed the accounts and the income from U.S. tax authorities by disguising the income as loans with falsified bank loan documents. Gates also testified that he embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from Manafort, and funded an expensive extramarital relationship with money embezzled from Manafort.
Under Jackson's December order, Manafort will be allowed to leave home confinement once he submits a series of documents to the court, including forfeiture agreement and records verifying that his family members have the necessary assets on hand to serve as sureties. Once those are docketed, Jackson wrote, she would issue a separate order releasing Manafort from home confinement in Alexandria, Virginia, where he's been since his October court appearance. Early on, he was an intern at the Washington consulting firm Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly and worked with Republican lobbyist Rick Davis, eventually working in 2006 with Mr. Manafort and Mr. Davis at their new consulting firm in an office in Kiev, Ukraine. He graduated in 1994 from the College of William & Mary with a degree in government and earned a master’s in public policy from George Washington University. Mr. Gates, 45, is accused of personally transferring more than $3 million into offshore accounts he controls and not properly reporting the income.
Gates must report to the Eastern District of Virginia court at noon for monitoring, CNN reports. Gates, along with Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, will have to check in daily with authorities by phone, and will only be allowed to leave their home to see their attorneys, appear at court or for medical and religious necessities. RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC/CNN/AP) — Rick Gates, one of the two men indicted Monday in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, is due in court in Richmond on Tuesday. Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska has sued Paul Manafort and Rick Gates for more than $25 million in damages over business deals involving his companies. The complaint filed in a New York state court in 2018 alleges that Manafort and Gates bilked his companies out of millions of dollars given to them to invest. The lawsuit relies, in part, on allegations that were outlined in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's indictments against Manafort and Gates.
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