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He has since written a book about his experiences and launched a consulting firm that listed the Virginia Avenue residence as its principal office. The firm, Tungsten LLC, is now listed with the State Corporation Commission as inactive. The indictment released Monday shows Gates used money from the Ukranian government funneled through off-shore accounts to pay his mortgage, his children’s tuition as well as to decorate the inside of the home. On December 17, 2019, Gates was sentenced to three years of probation, 45 days in jail, and 300 hours of community service. The judge took into account years of financial crimes and deception that continued even after he had agreed to plead guilty and cooperate. Gates accepted responsibility and said "I greatly regret the mistakes I have made." before being sentenced.
The couple previously lived in The Fan on Hanover Avenue before purchasing the home on Virginia Avenue for $2.1 million in December 2007. John Maher, the former owner and chef of Rogue Gentleman in Jackson Ward, has pled guilty to federal charges of child pornography. Gates’ biography also says he’s a 1994 graduate of the College of William and Mary where he studied government.
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Before that, they lived on Hanover Avenue in the Fan District beginning in 2001, according to property records. The federal indictment released Monday refers to Gates as Paul Manafort’s ‘right-hand man,’ working for Manafort’s companies Davis Manafort Partners Inc. and DMP International. According to a press release from a Denver-based company ID Watchdog, Gates joined the board of directors for the consumer protection company in 2011 but resigned from the board on November 9, 2016 — one day after the presidential election. RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC/AP) — One of the two men indicted Monday in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election owns a home in Richmond. Jackson said she will consider releasing them from house arrest, but has concerns about "flight."
According to a news release, Ana Patricia Landaverde, 47, and Jeffrey Dean Vaughan, 64, both of Williamsburg, and George William Evans, 68, of Midlothian, are charged with with ... The indictment shows Gates used money from the Ukranian government funneled through off-shore accounts to pay his mortgage, his children’s tuition as well as to decorate the inside of the home. Early in his career, Gates was appointed to the first class of the Falls Church Fellows program at the Falls Church Anglican, during which he also worked as an intern at the Washington, D.C., consulting firm Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly. There, he worked with Republican lobbyist Rick Davis, eventually going to work for the two business partners in 2006 at their new consulting firm, Davis Manafort, with an office in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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According to the Washington Post, Mr. Gates worked for high-ranking business executives and oligarchs in Russia, including for Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch with strong ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mr. Gates is the son of Richard W. Gates Jr., a retired Army lieutenant colonel and founder and chief executive officer of the Gates Group International, a management and information technology firm based in Prince George County. Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson, who has presided over numerous high-profile cases during her 30 years on the bench. "Rick Gates continues to cooperate in 'several ongoing' investigations and is not ready for sentencing".
On January 23, 2018, CNN reported that Gates had added white-collar attorney Tom Green to his defense team. The action could relate to a change in strategy, e.g. from a flat not-guilty plea to some kind of cooperation with prosecutors. On February 22, The Daily Beast reported that Gates fired Green, but later corrected its story.
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In order to foster transparent, civil conversation, please include your full name when posting comments. Social media profiles for Gates continued to list Richmond as his location as of Monday.
Gates surrendered Monday to Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller, along with former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Because it was off-market, the sale was not reflected in the regional multiple listing service typically used by area real estate agents. Both Manafort and Gates were released on house arrest Monday after posting $10 million and $5 million bond respectively. The 31-page indictment says he transferred the money from offshore accounts to other accounts he controlled. Once released from house arrest, Gates must get the court's permission for any domestic travel beyond Richmond, except for visits to Washington, DC, for court appearances and to meet with his lawyers. He won't be allowed to travel abroad, and he'll be required to stay away from "transportation facilities," such as airports and train stations, except for approved travel.
In a February 7, 2019, hearing, prosecutors speculated that Manafort had concealed facts about his activities to enhance the possibility of his receiving a pardon. They said that Manafort's work with Ukraine had continued after he had made his plea deal and that during the Trump campaign, he met with Gates and Konstantin Kilimnik, in an exclusive New York cigar bar. In June 2016, when Donald Trump promoted Manafort to the post of campaign manager, Gates worked as Manafort's deputy handling the day-to-day activities of the campaign including taking responsibility for apparent plagiarism in Melania Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention. Gates stayed on as number two in the campaign under Steve Bannon after Manafort was forced to resign, and then worked as deputy chairman of the Donald Trump Inaugural Committee.
Matthew is a managing director at Harris Williams, an M&A investment bank based in Richmond. "I'm not sure they need to be under house arrest, lock and key, day in, day out, but I think if they leave and don't come back, we need to know where they went," Jackson said. According to city property records, Gates lived with his family for several years on Hanover Avenue in the Fan until 2007. Manafort separately filed a civil lawsuit last week against Mueller and the Justice Department, arguing that Mueller's appointment as special counsel by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was invalid. Manafort asked the judge to not only throw out the appointment order, but also to set aside the charges that Mueller's office is pursuing against him.
His house in the city's Near West End neighborhood is worth $1.8 million, according to the indictment. As of Tuesday afternoon, Manafort's lawyers hadn't filed the forfeiture agreement and other documents Jackson asked for with the court. Mr. Gates and his wife, Sarah Brooks, and their four children have lived since 2007 in a home in Westmoreland Place, a subdivision in the near West End, according to Richmond property records.
Gates must report to the Eastern District of Virginia court at noon for monitoring, CNN reports. Gates, along with Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, will have to check in daily with authorities by phone, and will only be allowed to leave their home to see their attorneys, appear at court or for medical and religious necessities. RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC/CNN/AP) — Rick Gates, one of the two men indicted Monday in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, is due in court in Richmond on Tuesday. Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska has sued Paul Manafort and Rick Gates for more than $25 million in damages over business deals involving his companies. The complaint filed in a New York state court in 2018 alleges that Manafort and Gates bilked his companies out of millions of dollars given to them to invest. The lawsuit relies, in part, on allegations that were outlined in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's indictments against Manafort and Gates.
He helped to form a pro-Trump nonprofit group called America First Policies but was removed from the organization after his involvement with Manafort's overseas ventures was exposed. A 2011 release about Gates becoming a member of the board of directors of ID Watchdog, a Denver-based identity-theft protection firm, said Gates had more than 15 years of "international political, finance and business experience working for multinational firms." Gates met Manafort more than three decades ago, when Gates was an intern at the Washington consulting firm of Black, Manafort, Stone, Kelly according to a July story in The New York Times. Gates joined the Davis Manafort company in 2006 and worked with Manafort in Eastern Europe. Rick Gates, the former Trump campaign adviser who was a key witness in the federal probe into alleged Russian influence on the 2016 U.S. election, sold his home at 206 Virginia Ave. in the city’s West End for $3.15 million. Unsealed court documents Wednesday revealed prosecutors believed the men have enough assets and foreign connections to allow them to "live comfortably" outside of the United States, making them flight risks.
The property includes an inground pool and attached garage and was renovated in 1992, according to data on Realtor.com. The 1.5-acre property was most recently assessed by the city at just under $2.5 million. Rick Gates’ biography also says he’s a 1994 graduate of the College of William and Mary where he studied government. A vehicle pulled into the house’s driveway Monday night which 8News believes may have been Gates, returning from court.
Manafort’s work spurred a separate federal investigation in 2014, which examined whether he and other Washington-based lobbying firms failed to register as foreign agents for the Yanukovych regime. The sale came two years after Gates, 49, was sentenced to 45 days in jail and three years of probation after pleading guilty to conspiracy charges in the special counsel probe into Russian influence on the 2016 election. Richard W. Gates, III, commonly known as Rick Gates, is a lobbyist and political consultant who, on 30 OCT 2017, was indicted under Special Counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections along with his business partner, Paul Manafort. The two were charged with laundering $75M for foreign governments and for conspiracy against the United States. The indictment accuses Manafort and Gates of orchestrating a nearly decade-long conspiracy to covertly work for Ukrainian interests and launder millions of dollars through offshore accounts. Under the order unsealed Tuesday by US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, in order for Gates to be released, he'll have to agree to post a property that he owns in Richmond as well as two other properties owned by individuals whose names are redacted in the order.
In addition to Manafort’s Ukraine business dealings, his real estate dealings, overseas business ventures and bank accounts in offshore havens like Cyprus have also come under scrutiny. They are the first two officials in Trump’s orbit charged in connection with the special counsel investigation, which is exploring whether Trump’s actions surrounding the firing of former FBI Director James Comey amount to obstruction of justice. Mueller has taken a broad approach to his mandate that includes a focus on the financial dealings of Trump’s team. The Mueller investigation also resulted in a guilty plea from former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos.
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