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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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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.
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.
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Residents say a couple of police cars patrol the normally quiet street and officers talk to neighbors about what's going on. Many were surprised to hear about the Richmond connection to an international story. Jackson has ordered all of the parties and lawyers to not make any public comments that could be prejudicial to the case. When Mr. Manafort joined the Trump campaign in March 2016, Mr. Gates became his deputy. However, when Mr. Manafort was ousted in August 2016, Mr. Gates remained and stayed mostly below the public radar.
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.
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The Podesta Group is headed by Tony Podesta, the brother of John Podesta, the former chief of staff of the Obama White House. RICHMOND, Va. – One of the two men indicted Monday for conspiracy against the United States lives in Richmond, in the Westmoreland Place subdivision off Cary Street Road. National and local news crews spent much of Monday camped outside of his family’s Virginia Street home, though no notable activity was reported. Gates, 45, who has a degree from the College of William & Mary, has worked with Manafort at consulting firms since 2006. Built in 1920, the two-story house totals five bedrooms, five bathrooms and two half-baths.
On October 27, 2017, Gates and Manafort were indicted by a federal grand jury as part of the Special Counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and related matters. The twelve-count indictment charged the two men with conspiracy against the United States, making false statements, money laundering, and failing to register as foreign agents for Ukraine as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The charges arose from his work as a consultant for a pro-Russian government in Ukraine and is related to the Trump campaign. Manfort and Gates both pleaded not guilty Monday to charges including conspiracy, money laundering, tax fraud, failure to file reports of foreign financial assets, serving as an unregistered foreign agent and giving false and misleading statements under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
The project fell apart, and Deripaska sued Manafort and Gates in the Cayman Islands for mishandling his money. Deripaska, a Russian citizen, has offered to cooperate with Capitol Hill investigations in exchange for immunity. The indictment alleges that Gates was instrumental in helping Manafort defraud U.S. institutions and that they both concealed from the U.S. their work with the Ukraine and its political parties and leaders.
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.
The indictment alleges that Mr. Gates used money from the Ukrainian government, funneled through off-shore accounts, to pay his mortgage, decorate the home and pay his children’s tuition. On November 12, 2019, Gates testified in the criminal trial of Roger Stone, stating that he witnessed a call between Donald Trump and Stone related to the WikiLeaks website in late July 2016. Although he could not hear what was said, within 30 seconds or so of Trump hanging up, Trump said that "more information would be coming," in an apparent reference to WikiLeaks. On November 15, Stone was found guilty on all seven counts, obstruction of proceedings, five counts of false statements, and one count of witness tampering. According to prosecutors in the special counsel's office, Gates continued to provide information relevant to multiple "ongoing investigations" after the conclusion of Manafort's federal case in March 2019, and Gates's sentencing has been delayed while that cooperation continues. During this proffer session interview, on February 1, Gates lied to FBI investigators, and this false statement made by Gates was incorporated into the plea bargain that he subsequently entered into.
On February 23, 2018, Gates pleaded guilty to one count of false statements and one count of conspiracy against the United States. On May 13, 2019, prosecutors asked for another extension until August 30, stating that Gates continues to cooperate and referencing the pending trials of Roger Stone and Gregory Craig. He was sentenced in December 2019 to 45 days in jail and three years of probation, though the sentence was suspended in April 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Richmonder Rick Gates, a former Trump presidential campaign official, and his business partner, Paul Manafort, who was chairman of the Trump campaign, pleaded not guilty to a 12-count indictment charging them with conspiracy against the United States, tax fraud and money laundering.
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