트럼프 선대본부장 러' 스캔들 '1호' 기소••• 트럼프 "내통 없다"
Federal investigators looking into alleged Russian interference in last year's U.S. presidential election have charged President Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort and his business associate, Rick Gates, with money laundering.
Also, a third former Trump adviser has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about contacts with Russians.
Ro Aram reports.
The White House is saying the charges levied on Manafort and Gates are not directly linked with the Russia probe.
But it does in the sense that Trump's former campaign manager was taking millions of dollars from pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians between 2006 and 2015... and allegedly laundering those funds by various means.
Both Manafort and Gates have been put under house arrest pending their next court hearing on Thursday, with their bonds set at 10 million and five million dollars, respectively.
Both men have pleaded not guilty to all 12 criminal charges against them, and Manafort's lawyer has described the accusations as "ridiculous."
Although these revelations are dramatic, a potentially more significant bombshell has emerged.
One of President Trump's former foreign policy advisers, George Papadopoulos, had pleaded guilty earlier this month to charges that he lied to the FBI about his contact with a Russian professor with ties to Kremlin officials.
Court papers show that he admitted the talks happened while he worked for Trump on the campaign and after he had been told the Russians possessed "dirt" on Hillary Clinton.
The charges against Papadopoulos are the first to be brought by Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating possible collusion with Russia and the Trump campaign.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders, however, has said Papadopoulos' role as a foreign policy adviser was "extremely limited."
She added that he was a volunteer member of an advisory council that met with the president only once last March, and that nothing came of the encounter.
Ro Aram, Arirang News.
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