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An attorney representing Rick Gates suggested Monday that he had been informed by prosecutors that they may bring more charges against Gates, who faces federal charges on 12 counts of money laundering, tax evasion and failure to disclose foreign lobbying in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.
The comment, by New York-based lawyer Walter Mack, came in another case Mack is working on. Mueller’s team has raised the potential of a conflict of interest with Mack working on the two cases.
“We don’t know what the government is going to do. I mean, in both cases we’ve been told that there may be a superseder,” Mack told a federal judge in New York. “We don’t know what’s happening. We’re in a situation that is very difficult under the current circumstances to articulate exactly what’s the conflict that we’re being asked to deal with.”
A “superseder” refers to a superseding indictment, which is a new indictment against an existing defendant, usually with additional counts or parties or both, that replaces the original indictment. Gates and his co-defendant, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, have pleaded not guilty.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/gates-charges-lawyer-mack
The comment, by New York-based lawyer Walter Mack, came in another case Mack is working on. Mueller’s team has raised the potential of a conflict of interest with Mack working on the two cases.
“We don’t know what the government is going to do. I mean, in both cases we’ve been told that there may be a superseder,” Mack told a federal judge in New York. “We don’t know what’s happening. We’re in a situation that is very difficult under the current circumstances to articulate exactly what’s the conflict that we’re being asked to deal with.”
A “superseder” refers to a superseding indictment, which is a new indictment against an existing defendant, usually with additional counts or parties or both, that replaces the original indictment. Gates and his co-defendant, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, have pleaded not guilty.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/gates-charges-lawyer-mack
