Paul Manafort's Fate Is Sealed
For the past decade, Rick Gates was fiercely loyal to his risk-taking boss. Not anymore. <strong> </strong>
by Franklin Foer
Feb 24, 2018
3 minutes
There should be no denying Paul Manafort’s fate. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s list of charges keeps on swelling—a repeatedly amended compendium of malfeasance that is now so long and so pointillistic that it could be only defused by a world-historic prosecutorial gaffe. Despite this seeming comprehensiveness, each fresh filing in court contains a moment where the special prosecutor winks at his target, as if letting him know that he has only begun to bring the pain: a small display of how comprehensively he has surveilled Manafort and his minions; a further sampling of
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