Gates' lawyers say two people are willing to post property for his $5M bail

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico




By LOUIS NELSON 12/07/2017 07:45 AM EST

Lawyers representing former Donald Trump campaign staffer Rick Gates filed a motion Thursday notifying the court that he has enlisted the help of two people willing to post their property as collateral to help guarantee his $5 million bond conditions.

Gates’s attorneys said they had presented Mueller’s office with the two individuals willing to put up their property on Gates’s behalf and that those individuals had been interviewed by the special prosecutor’s team. Gates’s lawyers did not identify the individuals and their filing noted that they had asked Mueller’s team not to identify them either, in order to protect their privacy.

Gates, who served as the deputy to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is facing charges along with Manafort including money laundering and making false statements. The charges do not relate to the pair’s work for the Trump campaign but instead to their lobbying work in Ukraine. Both men have pleaded not guilty.

In late November, Manafort reached a bail deal with prosecutors to pledge four properties worth about $11 million in exchange for freedom from house confinement.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/07/rick-gates-bail-package-motion-285266

[UpInArms]

1. House confinement...

Must be soooo hard not to go out and be a traitor

[watoos]

2. Those two people

better be as clean as the driven snow.

[Achilleaze]

3. Russian oligarchs?

Wouldn't put it past the republicans who have betrayed America.

[getagrip_already]

4. who in their right minds...

would put up millions in collateral for a traitor that has nothing left to lose? Maybe a billionaire?

The chances this guy will violate his bond are close to 100%. He will, at some point, panic and do something stupid. They can lose the bond in a lot of ways, not just if he doesn't show up for trial.

In fact, mannafort may have violated his bond conditions. luckily for him, that bond hadn't been finalized.

Either they are so rich it doesn't matter to them, or someone has to have made a deal with these people they couldn't refuse. And that is where the interesting story will be.

[bluestarone]

5. better not be

Russian Rubles.