[gaijin]

Freaking unknown goober RICK GATES

[Col Frank Slade]

Who is he ?

[Brown Deer]

These charges don’t seem to have anything to do with potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia:
www.justice.gov/file/1007271/download

[Bonemaker]

Another hapless nobody in thrall to the even more hapless Jeff “the recuser” Sessions. What a freaking disaster.

[cynwoody]

Freaking unknown goober RICK GATES

That's Richard W Gates, III, Paul Manafort's business partner. See the indictment. Nothing to do with the Donald.

[blueplum]

he was Manafort’s shadow. The specialty being, supporting candidates and when they win, lobbying the winners on behalf of business owners looking for contracts. What he is being investigated for seems to have nothing to do with the Trump campaign or collusion. Rather, it appears the DOJ is unusually interested in how the methods/processes of capitalism works when applied to European markets and are willing to bankrupt people to get that information. I am curious as to why no ‘bush and Kerry’ operatives have been interviewed to the extent of Gates or Manafort.

Interesting background, and to steal a quote:
“ Mr. Yanukovych’s operation boasted numerous veterans of both George W. Bush’s and John Kerry’s presidential campaigns....“You elect Yanukovych, he is going to make it a market economy, so you work to do deals and get foreign investment — and that’s where the real money was,” Mr. Devine said.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/us/politics/rick-gates-russia.html

[BobL]

Trump needs to stick with STRAIGHT people. But tried it the other way, and paid BIG TIME.