Rick Gates’ Interviews

July 2, 2014

[link]

DMP International

Manafort strategist Gates structure

Party of Regions region

Cyprus

b7A

Someone he met with (Kluyev)

Lyovochkin

Business deal (Pericles?)

Kilimnik

January 29, 2018

[link]

Weissmann and Andres

Gates taxes

Oligarchs as paymasters

DMP pay directly

Manafort taxes

Gates aware Manafort not claiming everything

Corey Lewandowski

Tension rises after Cruz drops out

Claims that CL spent an exorbitant amount on bling

Gates doesn’t know whether firing about overpayments

b7A allegations about Lewandowski

Rick Dearborn

Running DC ops

Gates marginalized during transition bc of Dearborn

Dearborn and platform

Manafort’s resignation

Gates liaison to RNC

Gates believed Manafort should have fought media

Projects Manafort had started, data dump, taken over by Bannon (NSC, NEAC, Evangelicals and labor)

Flynn and McFarland

Gates and Flynn traveled together

Walid Phares

Phares brought on by Dearbon

Loan Fraud

Funds from Cyrpus

Citizens Bank 29

Tabs

Manafort never asked Gates to doctor doc

Cypriot accounts

DMP entities

Gates location

Richmond

Gates had apartment in DC but worked in NY and LA w/Barrack

Falsified P&Ls

Accrual

Tabs [emails from trial]

Kilimnik

Met in 2007, IRI

Worked for Russian intelligence

Worked out of DMP offices

Unfettered access to Yanu

Gates believed KK met Deripaska thru Manafort

Two meetings in 2016

False claim that last time Gates spoke to KK was May 2016

Gates believed last meeting was 2009

Trump Campaign

Outreach to foreign

June 9 meeting, family meeting

Gates didn’t know if Deripaska attended UNGA in September 2016 bc no visa

b7A

Lewandowski
Yanukovich and KK and Deripaska
OB
August meeting (confusion about May and August)

January 30, 2018

[link]

Weissmann and Andres

August 2 meeting

Sources of Oppo research

Flynn, data consultant in Houston
Don Jr and Clinton Foundation after June 9 meeting
Clovis said he had lead on missing emails
Claimed Stone never spoke about WikiLeaks to Gates, also Guccifer

Campaign Financing

No foreign contributions
Trump low dollar donations and self-finance

Inauguration

Claimed not to know KK went to Inauguration
Rybolovlev seeking inauguration tickets (b7A)

Redacted (foreign support)

Financial support
Cambridge Analytica

Bank Fraud

377 Union
Cyprus and buying real estate in cash
Private equity people with email accounts

Genesis Capital

Howard Street
Sending Citizens false information on Howard Street

B7A

The true details of the Ukraine offer
More details about KK and Deripaska
Rybolovlev seeking inauguration tickets
Manafort’s funding

January 31, 2018

[link]

WEissmann and Andres

Foreign entities

Actinet trading Limited
KK facilitate payments
Bletilla Ventures
Global Highway
Lucicle Consultants
- Gates suspected quid pro quo
- Gates rarely at meetings with oligarchs
Marziola Holdings
Olivenia Trading
Peranova Holdings
Sergaon Holdings
- Used to pay management on Pericles
Pompolo
St. Vincent and Grenadines
- Diminishing confirmations
REdacted

Tax returns

2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2013 amended

Communication methods

Email accounts, anti-crisis project

Communication with KK during campaign

Deleted documents

Gates claims he didn’t delete anything
Long b7A
Gates says he may have deleted stuff

Project Hapsburg

Pitch Yanu
Group of senior Europeans (b7A)

b7A

KK facilitate payments
Payments from oligarchs
Gates at microtargeting meeting with oligarchs
Seragon used to pay management on Pericles deal
Confirmations from Manafort on St Vincent accounts
Communication methods: email accounts, Hushmail
Threema and Viber from KK
WhatsApp
Bat PHones
Gates deletes documents
Hapsburg VIPs

February 1, 2018

[link]

Weissmann and Andres

US Consultants Program Background

EFCMU [lots of newly unsealed pertaining to Podesta and Mercury]

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher

The FARA Unit

DMP FARA Obligation

The Skadden Report

Think Tanks

The Association Agreement

Other

b7A

Azarov and Kluiev

February 2, 2018

[link]

Weissmann and Andres

FARA

Indirect involvement in Podesta and Mercury triggers FARA

Rohrabacher

Redacted b7A (possibly 2)

The Trump Campaign

Trying to get hired as early as January
Getting hired would be good for business, followed by b7A
April outreach about the campaign, getting whole
Gates assumes Black Caviar is Akmetov (Manafort says Yanu)

Post Manafort resignation

b7A, Manafort’s efforts to stay in touch
Manafort in touch with Parscale and Dearborn

2017

How Manafort stayed in touch
Gates didn’t know any resolution to Deripaska lawsuit

Dates: Where Gates was in early 2016 and October 2016

b7A

Redacted after Rohrabacher
Getting hired would be good for business
Getting whole and Deripaska
Manafort never told Gates what he was offering Deripaska
The quid pro quo came up at the May meeting, probably
Black Caviar
Post-resignation, how Manafort stayed in touch and what Gates talked to him about
Whom Manafort reached out through
Gates not know where Manfort was traveling (besides Cuba)

February 7, 2018

[link]

Weissmann, Andres, Rhee, Zelinsky

April 27 foreign policy speech

Arose out of convo bt Kushner, Miller, and Manafort
How the hotel was booked
Who was backstage
Whether someone besides campaign was backstage

Speech content

Miller drafts, Gates reviews
Simes gets advance copy
Simes forwarded Russian talking points to Kushner
Manafort and Simes may have known each other
Simes floats the Clinton Foundation dirt to Jared

Gates claims to have contemporaneous memory of June 9 meeting

Sam Clovis

Yanukovych

Other

Polling data

Description of the mix of polls, including CA

b7A

Why Manafort started leveraging Trump in April

February 9, 2018

[link]

Weissmann and Andres

Rohrabacher

Energy Today

Redacting lobbying

Navitas LLC

FARA

Payment with Stock

Redacted

ID Watchdog

February 12, 2018

[link]

Weissmann and Andres

Other Crimes

Insider trading
Investment fraud (redacted)
Bank fraud
Bribery
Lack of candor under oath
- Winding up agreement about how bank accounts in Cyprus held
- FBI interview 2014
- Skadden report
Campaign fraud
- Vendor payments from campaign (Red Curve)
Obstruction of Justice
- Mueller
- FARA (b7A in context with FARA reports, regarding AP questions)
- Skadden
Other

Kilimnik

August 2
Clever plan to defeat Hillary

Sam Pataten

Manafort and policy

Barrack and Policy (b7A)

Roger Stone

How they met in 1995
Stone’s relationship with Trump
What Stone advised campaign on (including targeting states)

Hacking

Focus on DCCC files
Stone tried to hire someone in SC for social media

Redacted (Pericles?) Pericles’ relationship to DMP b7A

Foreign money to campaign

Uncoordinated rallies and media campaigns

Other, including Gates’ knowledge of Comey and Flynn firing

b7A

Local officials and bribery in Ukraine
Coordinating story about FARA
August 2, when Gates arrived
August 2, where Gates stayed that night
Yanukovych X2
Kilimnik RU intelligence
Barrack and Policy
How Gates met Stone
Pericles’ relationship with DMP

February 22, 2018

[link]

Weissmann

A discussion of post-plea ramifications

b7A: Speaking to someone on February 20, 2018

February 27, 2018

[link]

Weissmann, Andres, Richardson

Communications accounts

Email
- Manafort communicating with [Kilimnik] separately (b7A)
Telephone
- Bat phone b7A
Applications (some b7A)

Pre/Post plea

Who Gates communicated with in the two weeks prior (b7A)
Gates’ conversations about how Nunes memo and IG Report would help him fight

Konik Madison (where he was working)

Legal Fees (Gates paying his own)

IDW

Akhmetov [redacted]

Redacted (b7A)
Akhmetov owned US Coal

United Kingdom

Several periods when he lived in London, including when he worked on Pericles deal

Foreign Campaign Contributions

Memo permitting foreign contributions if they went to policy (b7A)

Manafort criminal activity

Donation to McCain’s campaign

Troll farms

b7A

OpSec, probably tied to Kilimnik, who he communicated with prior to his plea
Someone’s exorbitant legal fees
Akhmetov
Pericles and London
Foreign donations to 501c4
Donation to McCain from LOAV

February 28, 2018

[link]

Weismann and Andres

ID Watchdog

McCain campaign (LOAV laundering a donation from Deripaska)

Submarine deal

Energy Today

[Redacted] Gates Plea

Cyprus Accounts

FBAR

US Vendors and Real Estate

KWC (Manafort’s accountants)

February 28, 2018

[link]

Weissman and Andres

Bank Contacts

Campaign

Payments from someone (possibly Russian); formerly b7A
Who Manafort was still speaking to in December 2016
Who Gates was speaking to

b7A

Who Manafort was speaking to

March 1, 2018

[link]

Weissmann and Andres

August 2016 and Havana Club

Lying to Ken Vogel
Whether he had received calls about the meeting (b7A)
Kilimnik’s claims to the WaPo

DNC Hack/Roger Stone

Gates accompanied Manafort to meeting with Stone
“Something big is going to happen that we can use”
Stone told Gates days before the Podesta drop that, “Podesta is going to be taken down”
Genesis of Seth Rich story (Stone spoke to both Bannon and Cohen)
Fears of RNC hack

Departure of Manafort

June 9 meeting

Manafort warned against the June 9 meeting
Manafort wasn’t sure he attended

b7A

Whether he had calls abt the Havana meeting
KK’s claims to WaPo
Manafort told the campaign something about an RNC hack

March 12, 2018

[link]

Andres — recorded as “on or around,” and not entered until July

Personal Background

Gates and Manafort’s background

Work in Ukraine

When he was there
What they did which years
How the Lyov money came in

Manafort entities

Pericles (b7A)

2014 lawsuit came as a total surprise

Vendor payments

Cyprus

Manafort’s accountants

Akhmetov work

Deripaska

Manafort’s effort to get Deripaska a visa
Deripaska wanting to get in US aluminum business

DMP and Manafort Associates (all redacted, one b7A)

b7A

1¶ of personal backgroun
A description of someone who socialized with Manafort
How the money from Lyovochkin came in
Something abt the political accounts in Cyrpus

March 16, 2018

[link]

Andres

Overseas travel

Pericles

Ukraine

Lyov’s business deals

Jared Kushner

Kushner’s relationship with Manafort sours
Barrack told Gates Kushner had fucked over business partners
Trump told K Christie would never work in Admin

Deripaska’s visa (b7A)

b7A

Deripaska, Pericles, Lyov

March 18, 2018

[link]

Weissmann and Andres

Pericles

Ukraine

After November 2016 Election

Talking points on Manafort and Gates’ work in Ukraine
Broidy

b7A

Pericles, Ukraine, Intervening for Broidy

March 20, 2018

[link]

Weissmann and Ahmad

Mostly b7A about fundraising for the campaign

March 21, 2018

[link]

Rhee, Weissmann

Redacted (b7A)

Corsi (one b7A about meeting Trump)

Cambridge Analytica (two b7A)

Lewandowski (all b7A)

Flynn (mostly b7A)

Stone projects (b7A)

March 28, 2018

[link]

Weissmann, Andres

DMP details and doc review

April 10, 2018

[link]

Andres, Rhee, Weissmann, Zelinsky

Jerome Corsi

Meeting purportedly something about Hillary’s emails (may be redacted in more recent release)

Roger Stone’s role in the campaign

Stone got more involved in April 2016
Manafort told Gates Stone was on the hunt before June 14
Stone said he had info directly from Assange
Stone trying to talk to Kushner abt Crowdstrike report
b7A
Convo on or about June 15 where Stone said he had contact with Guccifer 2 (conflicts with earlier comment)
Family meeting on June 20, Stone did not come up (that’s when Lewandowski was fired)
Manafort and Stone have lunch on June 23 (check schedule for Flynn call that same day)
Stone told Manafort abt Podesta day before time the barrel comment

Campaign response to hacked emails

Attributes inside job to Seth Rich
Interest ratchet up on April May time frame
Gates describes euphoria in response to June 12 announcement, not July 22

Speak to Hannity often

b7A:

Stone talking to Kushner about Crowdstrike report

April 11, 2018

[link]

Andrew Weissmann, Greg Andres, Aaron Zelinsky [Not Rhee]

Roger Stone talking Hillary’s emails constantly

Assange has Hillary emails
Wait and see approach
No one took action
Stone said release would happen imminently and very soon
Stone and Bannon in contact daily

June 12, 2016 – July 22, 2016

Trump talking to Stone directly
Messaging strategy
Disagreement about where emails had come from

Messaging strategy, speaking to Kilimnik

July 22, 2016

Whether he had convos about how to use
“Gates initially stated Stone said there would be additional information coming, however, Gates later said he did not recall Stone saying there would be more during the conference call.”

Late July – 8/19/16

Trump’s are you listening ad lib (others say Stone)

August 2, 2016

Stone talked to Trump about more coming

August 2, 2016 – August 21, 2016

September 2016

October 4, 2016

October 7, 2016

Rest of October 2016

b7A:

Conversation about what campaign could plan for,
Trump talking to Stone directly,
Messaging strategy,
Whether Manafort asked Kilimnik to reach out, rest of October

April 11, 2018

[link]

Weissmann and Andres

Information about the investigation

b7A

Contacts (with those being investigated?)

April 17, 2018

[6th release link]

Andres and Zelinsky

Ted Malloch

Oppo doc on Trump (b7A)

April 17, 2018

[link]

Serialized interview 445

April 17, 2018

[link]

Possibly outreach from Manafort

April 18, 2018

[link]

Goldstein and Andres

Gates’ contact with Flynn and McFarland

Transition communications with Russia

b7A

Flynn and McFarland (originally b7B)
Meetings involving Kislyak (originally b7B)
Flynn’s firing (originally b7B)
Trump’s views on Russian investigation (originally b7B)

April 18, 2018

[link]

Andres

Apparently entire accounting trial prep

April 18, 2018

[link]

Andres

Michael Cohen

Cohen wanted Lewandowski fired

Redacted

Entirely b7A

Obama’s call to Yanu

April 19, 2018

[link]

Andres

Investing vehicle b7A

Redacted privacy

Roger Stone privacy

April 19, 2018

[6th release link]

Someone who got a meeting directly

Kushner and Greenblatt, Jewish community

b7A

Strategic messaging based on the dumps

Emails were campaign’s October surprise

April 19, 2018

[10th series link]

Weissmann

Manafort’s Land Rover dealer

April 19, 2018

[10th release link]

Weissmann

Trial prep

May 3, 2018

[link]

Andres

Accounts in St. Vincent (b7A)

Contract with Yanu through Lyov

May 3, 2018

[link]

Andres and Van Grack

Flynn among chief surrogates by spring 2016 (along with Rudy, Sessions, Kudlow)

No memory of June 30 Flynn meeting with Manafort

No memory of call on 6/23/16, no memory of social media discussion

Flynn had influence on Trump’s thinking about foreign interference, someone else b7A would discuss it

Flynn advised Trump to hold off on responding about Russian emails

Someone with whom first interaction was during transition

Bill paid to Flynn company (Colt)?

b7A

Someone first met in transition

Possibly same person speaking up about foreign interference

May 3, 2018

[link]

Andres

Who DMP was really working for

b7A

Who has equity in DMP (possibly Kilimnik or another of the Ukrainians? Manafort wanted Gates to say the accounts were Manafort’s)

Possibly related to Actinet in Cyprus

May 3, 2018

[link]

Trump hates Haley

Trump and McConnell hate each other

Pence has ties to Congress

Mnuchin and others looking for a tax dodge

May 3, 2018

[link]

What contacts he had had, including with Maggie H

Contact with Parscale about DNC lawsuit

May 24, 2018

[link]

Gates stayed at Manafort’s house

Someone was on company healthcare

Proshenko

ECFMU

AP report in June/July 2016 (formerly b7A)

May 31, 2018

[link]

Andres

Who did some job

June 13, 2018

[link]

Andres

Whether he knew someone

Something odd about the way he appeared in the office

June 20, 2018

[link]

Andres

Gates didn’t destroy ECFMU docs

Manafort warned Gates against Green

June 27, 2018

[link]

Andres

All redacted

July 5, 2018

[link]

ID people in picture

Manafort said they’d get help from Lyov

July 12, 2018

[link]

Andres

More about interviews with the NYT

August 18, 2018

[link]

Weissmann and Andres

Response to Gates saying he may have submitted a false expense report to PIC

He did not get along with a woman on PIC

Did not get involved in distribution’

b7A

Most everything about Gates’ claims about PIC

September 11, 2018

[link]

2 SDNY and 1 NSD AUSA

Skadden Report background

Skadden report media strategy

Emails/Docs shown to Gates

Project Veritas strategy, Hawker
Aspirational that project would conclude Tymo was valid
Van Der Zwaan and. Hawker
Emails with Craig
Master Control Grid–Craig to media
Mercury
Whether Craig wanted to talk to NYT

September 27, 2018

[link]

Andres and Weissman

Black Caviar Email

It seems DOJ may not have believed Manafort’s claim that caviar was a reference to Yanu, and not someone like Akhmetov or Deripaska
Yanu returning
Yanu not reaching out after he fled

Polling data

Reason why he sent polling data to Deripaska b6
“On multiple occasions GATES and MANAFORT woudl receive a poll and MANAFORT would tell GATES to sent it to KILIMNIK based on the poll’s content.”

Trump presidential campaign

Mnuchin handled everything but direct mail
Middle EAst and Israel came up
It would have been unfathomable for Manafort to travel while on campaign and speed with which he went after surprised Gates.

b7A

Who gave Manafort caviar (earlier Gates had said it would be Akhmetov)
Source of largest payments
Whether Manafort would have traveled
What Manafort planned to do after election

September 27, 2018

[link]

Andres, 2 AUSAs (from SDNY?) and 1 NSD

Genesis of Manafort lobbying for Party of Regions

Need at least one EU citizen to be founder
Goal to counter issues EU had with Ukraine

Lobbying firms

Manafort’s choice, Mercury obvious
Manafort told the people that the client was GoU
People always reported to Manafort

Docs

Podesta originally planning on filing FARA

b7A

redacted

Someone told Gates

One letter

October 9, 2018

[link]

Weissmann

No discussion of using a front for PsyGroup

October 10, 2018

[link]

Weissmann, UASA, and NSD Trial Attorney

Mercury call

Durbin Resolution

Skadden Arps

Docs

Financial backing of ECMFU b7A

October 10, 2018

[link]

James Mann, Nicole Lockhart, Ryan Ellersick

Work in Gabon

Trump Campaign

Inauguration

Post-Campaign

America First Policies
Romanian delegation
Trump and golf

1MDB

Redacted appointment and other appointments

FATA and Gates’ trouble

Miscellaneous

Last spoke to
Viceroy Hotel
Encrypted apps
Something from someone close to Grassley’s staff
References to Demers as puffery
More on Malaysia
Putting out headlines on Feinstein

October 25, 2018

[link]

Weissmann, Rhee, Zelinsky

June 12, 2016 to July 22, 2016

Stone made his comments at least two weeks before June 12
When emails didn’t come, it was an example of Stone saying something that didn’t happen (inconsistent with earlier claim that Stone had raised G2)
Trump frustrated Hillary’s emails not found
Manafort would have Gates check in
Stone told Gates of drop before 7/22
Messaging strategy built in June July
Clinton trustworthy problems

Post July 22 WikiLeaks releases

Opportunity for deflection after comments about Ted Cruz’s father
Gates, public indications Russia behind them
Congratulatory call between Manafort and Stone after 7/22
Laguardia call
Gates not sure whether pressure coming from the top
Around this time Bannon brought on to bolster Manafort
Defend Manafort by attacking Podesta

October 4

October 7

Stone had multiple avenues into campaign, including Bannon
Discussions about content of Podesta after drop

Redacted

Corsi’s Podesta docs (Gates doesn’t remember)

October 25, 2018

[link]

Weissmann, Mann, Lockart, unnamed, Ellersick

Inauguration

About half b7A

Other work for Trump (including VTB)

Miscellanous (including b7A)

October 25, 2018

[link]

Weissmann

DCI Group

Grassroots for Bush becomes DCI
Discussion of Manafort being hired there

Ukraine

Russia

Manafort’s work for other countries

Manafort legal fees

Miscellaneous

Bannon set up a war room separate from the White House

b7a

People associated with DCI
Ukraine
Policy on Crimea
Manafort’s work for other countries
Something that happened in late 2017
Someone Kushner had asked him to meet

October 29, 2018

[link]

Weissmann

Manafort’s China Efforts

Telephone project
b7A
Tried to get Chinese nationals into inauguration

Ukraine work

b7A hiring in 2010
Gates never heard plans abt Eastern Ukraine
Kilimnik and Deripaska

Boyarkin and Deripaska

Spoke good English, lots of work for Deripaska

Miscellaneous: Pay t0 play with Clinton

b7A

Manafort’s China efforts
DMP hiring in 2010
After Patten and Kilimnik
Kilimnik direct line to Deripaska
Boyarkin

October 29, 2018

[link]

Ahmad, Weissmann

At first no control over budget

Gates convinced Trump he couldn’t self-finance any longer

Red Curve

Mid-June Manafort took over budget expenditures

Gates out of inner circle by the time of $10 million infusion

No evidence of kickbacks (b7A)

Meeting with Cambridge Analytica in NY

Cruz liked psychographics not the comms

Big donor to the campaign

Gates would review Trump’s call logs, but after Conway took over people had to call Melania

b7A

Kickbacks

Cambridge Analytica data

CA claimed to be US-based, Gates figured out it was UK,

November 7, 2018

[link]

Rhee, Weissmann, Andres (Gates’ lawyer not present)

Friends and Family list for Inauguraiton

November 7, 2018

[link]

Andres and Weissmann

Lewandowski’s PAC (formerly b7A)

Redacted, b7A

Redacted, someone with offices in NY and ties to POR

Campaign’s knowledge of Manfort’s Ukraine work

Manafort claimed he told Trump
Trump needing all details as it broke

Misc, fundraiser

Creation of vehicle to protect Trump’s delegates (527, worked on with Stone, pitched to Trump), b7A

Kilimnik in May

Boy, direct tie with Putin
b7A

March 30 email b7A

b7A

527 to protect Trump’s delegates
Boyko direct to Putin
May meeting
March 30 email

November 11, 2018

[link]

Weissmann

Money laundering scheme

Viber message about Manafort attending inauguration events

Manafort continued to work through Kushner

February 15, 2019

[link]

Andres, Rhee, Weissmann

Polling data sent to Kilimnik

Meeting with Kilimnik

Gates didn’t know if Manafort sent data to Deripaska

b7A: WhatsApp sharing, A memo, data on cities

February 22, 2019

[link]

Andres, Weissmann, Green not present

Whether Gates had discussions about the reporting on the Kilimnik violation

Claims Green was mistaken for whatever reason he set up the meeting