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#ManafortTrial Day 6:

Gates testimony:

✅Pro-Russian Party of Regions politicians (Kolesnikov & Lovochkin) paid Manafort millions via disguised Cypriot accounts.

✅Documentary evidence suggests Manafort controlled foreign accounts.

✅Repeatedly directed to defraud banks.

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#ManafortTrial Day 6 cont.

Gates testified:

✅At Manafort's direction, he fabricated invoices due to offshore banking rule requiring the invoice to have the Manafort-controlled entity name instead of Manafort's.

✅Directed to hide international wire xfers from bookkeeper.

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#ManafortTrial Day 6 cont.

Gates testified:

✅Manafort's prepared agendas suggest Manafort had key role on tax & bill strategy.

✅2016 emails from Manafort show he altered P&L statement received from bookkeeper by “about $4.2 M” to secure loan from Federal Savings Bank.

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#ManafortTrial Day 6 cont.

Gates testified:

✅After Manafort resigned from the Trump campaign, he asked Gates to use his position to offer favors to S. Calk, CEO of Federal Savings Bank.

✅Calk subsequently added to list of national economic advisers for Trump campaign.

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#ManafortTrial Day 6 cont.

Gates testified:

✅Manafort to Gates Nov. '16 email: “We need to discuss Steve Calk for Sec of the Army.”

✅Upon grilling by defense on past lies, “Mr. Manafort had the same path, I’m here to tell the truth. [I’ve] accepted responsibility.”

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