By Darren Samuelsohn
POLITICO
May 13, 2019
Federal prosecutors signaled on Monday that they could call Rick Gates, the Trump campaign’s former deputy chairman, to testify at two high-profile upcoming criminal trials that resulted from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
Gates could get tapped as a witness in the Justice Department’s cases against both former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig and longtime Trump associate Roger Stone, according to a joint status report that says Gates “continues to cooperate” with the government and isn’t yet ready for his own sentencing.
Mueller secured a guilty plea from Gates in February 2018 on charges of financial fraud and lying to investigators. Last summer, Mueller’s prosecutors used Gates as a star witness in the Paul Manafort trial, which secured a conviction and ultimately a sentence of nearly 7½ years against the former Trump campaign chairman.