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Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager charged with conspiracy against US

By Evan Perez, Jeremy Herb, Marshall Cohen, Pamela Brown and Shimon Prokupecz, CNN

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former Trump campaign official Rick Gates surrendered Monday to Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller.

Gates, 45, is a longtime business associate of Manafort, 68, having worked together since the mid-2000s, and served as his deputy on the campaign. The two were indicted under seal on Friday, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said.

The indictment against the two men contains 12 counts: conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading US Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) statements, false statements, and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts.

Read more at http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/30/politics/paul-manafort-russia-investigation-surrender/index.html

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