Article snippet: Special counsel MORE and Richard Gates. A federal court in Virginia on Thursday returned a 32-count superseding indictment charging Manafort and Gates with committing tax fraud, failing to file reports on foreign bank and financial accounts, and bank fraud conspiracy. "Manafort and Gates generated tens of millions of dollars in income as a result of their Ukraine work,” the indictment says. “From approximately 2006 through the present, Manafort and Gates engaged in a scheme to hide income from United States authorities, while enjoying the use of the money." Twenty-three of the counts in the new indictment apply to Gates, while 13 apply to Manafort. The new charges in the case against Gates and Manafort come less than a week after Mueller indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for orchestrating an elaborate scheme to interfere in the election using social media and other means. They also come on the heels of a guilty plea from lawyer Alex can der Zwaan, who confessed to lying to FBI agents about his conversations with Gates about a 2012 report he had a hand in compiling for Ukraine’s government. The new indictment also follows reports that Mueller filed new charges under seal Wednesday in the case against Manafort and Gates. Meanwhile, Gates is rumored to be nearing a plea deal in Mueller’s probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections, which would pave the way for him to cooperate as a witness against Manafort, his l... Link to the full article to read more