The indictment alleges both men “generated tens of millions of dollars of income as a result of their Ukraine work” from 2006 to 2016 and that in order to hide the profits from US authorities, they laundered the money. They are also being charged for not reporting their work in “direct[ing] a campaign to lobby US officials on behalf of the Government of Ukraine, the President of Ukraine, and Ukrainian political parties.” While Manafort exited the campaign in August 2016 and seemingly any public affiliation with Trump’s team going forward from campaign to White House, Gates has been working with White House staff on an intermittent basis. Manafort has groomed Gates for several years and the pair have been connected through documents of companies Manafort had established in Cyprus, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and the Seychelles in order to receive payments from his Eastern European business and political clients, according to the New York Times.