US intends to call Paul Manafort associate Rick Gates as witness: prosecutor

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday said they plan to call Rick Gates, a long-time business partner of President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort, as a witness in a criminal trial that began this week against Manafort.

“We have absolutely put him on the list,” Greg Andres, a member of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team said. “We have every intention of calling him as a witness.”

Reporting by Nathan Layne; Writing by Susan Heavey; Editing by Bernadette Baum