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The special counsel unsealed the first criminal charges in the Russia investigation, accusing Paul Manafort and Rick Gates of a decade-long financial and foreign-lobbying scheme that ran through the Trump orbit. Trump tried to shrug it off as old business, but the indictment made clear that his campaign’s former chairman and deputy were now front and center in a federal case.
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The special counsel unsealed the first criminal charges in the Russia investigation, accusing Paul Manafort and Rick Gates of a decade-long financial and foreign-lobbying scheme that ran through the Trump orbit. Trump tried to shrug it off as old business, but the indictment made clear that his campaign’s former chairman and deputy were now front and center in a federal case.
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The special counsel unsealed the first criminal charges in the Russia investigation, accusing Paul Manafort and Rick Gates of a decade-long financial and foreign-lobbying scheme that ran through the Trump orbit. Trump tried to shrug it off as old business, but the indictment made clear that his campaign’s former chairman and deputy were now front and center in a federal case.
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