President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and Manafort's former business associate Rick Gates were indicted Monday. The men were charged with 12 counts related to money laundering, tax evasion and foreign lobbying. The New York Times read through the 31-page indictment. Here are the highlights:
1. Lobbying and offshore accounts
According to special counsel Robert Mueller, Manafort and Gates worked as unregistered agents providing political consulting and lobbying work in Ukraine between at least 2006 and 2015. The men worked in various capacities with Viktor Yanukovych, the onetime Ukrainian president and a pro-Russia politician.
The job was lucrative, generating tens of millions of dollars that the men attempted to hide from U.S. tax collectors and the public in a series of foreign companies and bank accounts, the indictment said.
Mueller's team found that more than $75 million passed through offshore accounts, and that Manafort laundered more than $18 million to pay for real estate, luxury goods and other services in the United States. Gates transferred more than $3 million from offshore accounts, court documents allege.
2. Lying about work in Ukraine
Manafort and Gates were required by law to report their work for and payment from the Ukrainians to the United States. They did not, the documents allege.
After their work was disclosed in news reports in August 2016, when Manafort was still working for the Trump campaign, he and Gates "developed a false and misleading cover story" to distance themselves from Ukraine, according to federal prosecutors.