A federal grand jury in Virginia approved a new set of charges from special counsel Robert Mueller against former Trump campaign aides Paul Manafort and Rick Gates Thursday afternoon.
Read: Mueller’s new indictment of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates
The new indictment has 32 counts of tax, financial, and bank fraud charges.
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Mueller had indicted Manafort and Gates on a combined 12 counts last October in Washington, DC, but he has now assembled a “superseding indictment” with a combined 32 counts of tax, financial, and bank fraud charges against the two men — in Virginia rather than Washington.
There have been reports that Gates was close to making a plea deal with Mueller’s team, but that seems not to have panned out. Read the new indictment here:
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