{"id":6383,"date":"2020-09-27T12:47:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T12:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=6383"},"modified":"2020-09-27T12:47:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T12:47:55","slug":"indicted-trumps-former-campaign-chair-paul-manafort-charged-with-federal-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=6383","title":{"rendered":"Indicted: Trump&#039;s Former Campaign Chair Paul Manafort Charged With Federal Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>After a weekend of speculation about the possibility of indictments, the <em>New York Times<\/em> was the first to report that former chairman of President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign Paul Manafort, along with his former business associate and top deputy Rick Gates, were ordered to surrender themselves to federal authorities on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The specific charges against Manafort and Gates contained in the indictment include conspiracy to launder money, failing to register as a foreign agent, false statements, and multiple counts of failing to file reports for foreign bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p>And while nothing in the indictment appears to be directly related to collusion with Russia or activities with the Trump campaign, the <em>Times<\/em> reports that these are the first charges under the direction of Robert Mueller III and &#8220;represent a significant escalation in [his] special counsel investigation that has cast a shadow over the president&#8217;s first year in office.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>Times<\/em> journalist Matt Apuzzo, speaking with <em>MSNBC<\/em> this morning after the frontpage broke, Manafort agreed to turn himself in. In its reporting, the <em>Associated Press<\/em> has confirmed that Gates will also submit to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, Manafort and his attorney were seen entering the FBI field office in Washington, DC:<\/p>\n<p>The <em>AP<\/em> reports:<\/p>\n<p>Offering his perspective, <em>MSNBC<\/em>&#8216;s legal analyst Ari Melber posted this analysis on Facebook, which included:<\/p>\n<p>On social media, the reaction was swift, with many noting that Manafort, despite the White House&#8217;s attempt to downplay it, played a central role in the Trump campaign and that Gates, though he lacks the same kind of name recognition, was also a key player in GOP politics in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Others pointed out that this should be considered a pivotal moment in Mueller&#8217;s Trump-Russia probe, but certainly not the end of the story:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Our work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to republish and share widely.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a weekend of speculation about the possibility of indictments, the New York Times was the first to report that former chairman of President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign Paul Manafort, along with his former business associate and top deputy Rick Gates, were ordered to surrender themselves to federal authorities on Monday. The specific charges&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}