Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, center, and campaign deputy Rick Gates, right, appear Monday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson in federal court in Washington during a hearing on the first charges stemming from an investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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Former Trump campaign chairman and deputy face conspiracy, money laundering charges
President Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and his former deputy, Rick Gates of Richmond, were indicted in federal court on Monday in a sharp escalation of U.S. Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s five-month-old investigation into alleged Russian efforts to tilt the 2016 election in President Trump’s favor and into potential collusion by his aides.
