Mueller Squeezes Manafort and Gates With New Tax Charges
- U.S. adds fraud accusations to laundering and lobbying counts
- Actions seen strengthening case as U.S. moves toward trial
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Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his onetime deputy, Rick Gates, were indicted on tax and bank fraud charges as U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller mounted a fresh attack to strengthen his legal pressure against the men.
Mueller used a new in Alexandria, Virginia, to raise the legal stakes against the duo, who were initially indicted on Oct. 27 in Washington on charges of laundering millions of dollars and failing to register as foreign agents for their political consulting work over a decade in Ukraine.