Gates is a protégée of Manafort, a June New York Times report said. Like Manafort, Gates helped wrangle delegates at the high-stakes 2016 Republican National Convention. During Manafort’s work with Ukraine, Gates would fly to Moscow to take meetings with Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, the New York Times reported. “Everything was done legally and with the approval of our lawyers,” Gates has told the New York Times. "He welcomes the opportunity to confront these charges in court," Glenn Selig, a spokesman for Gates, told Fox News.

Source: Fox News October 30, 2017 14:15 UTC