Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his former business associate, Rick Gates, were indicted on money laundering and tax and foreign lobbying charges as part of the Russian collusion investigation led by special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III. On Monday, October 30, Manafort and Gates surrendered to the FBI, a bureau once headed by Mueller.

The indictment reads that lobbyist Manafort “used his hidden overseas wealth to enjoy a lavish lifestyle in the United States without paying taxes on that income …Manafort and Gates repeatedly provided false information to financial bookkeepers, tax accountants and legal counsel, among others.” Gates allegedly transferred over $3 million from foreign accounts and is charged, along with Manafort, with making false statements concerning the issue.

Mueller’s hope with this indictment is to acquire damaging information from Manafort about Trump to see if the President himself, or anyone else on his campaign, is connected to the Kremlin or colluded with the Russians. Last week, a spotlight was cast on Cambridge Analytica, the British data company that ran the Trump campaign’s data operations. Mueller is likely to investigate this data company further to find out if the company assisted the Kremlin in targeting voters to help Trump win the presidency.