President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and their son Barron Trump disembark Air Force One upon arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday, Feb. 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (Associated Press) 
 
 President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and their son Barron Trump disembark Air Force One upon arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday, Feb. 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (Associated Press) 
 
 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Russia probe (all times local): 
 
 9:35 a.m. 
 
 Special counsel Robert Mueller's prosecutors have filed a new charge against a man they say lied to federal investigators in the Russia probe. 
 
 A charging document filed in federal court in Washington on Tuesday accuses Alex Van Der Zwaan of one charge of making false statements. The information was filed ahead of a plea hearing scheduled for later Tuesday. 
 
 The court filing says that Van Der Zwaan lied to investigators about his interactions with Rick Gates. Gates, a former Trump campaign aide, was indicted last year on charges of conspiracy to launder money and acting as an unregistered foreign agent. 
 
 Mueller is investigating Russian election interference and links between the Trump campaign and Russia. 
 
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 8:36 a.m. 
 
 President Donald Trump is again accusing his predecessor of not doing enough to prevent Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. 
 
 Trump tweets that's because President Barack Obama "thought Crooked Hillary was going to win and he didn't want to 'rock the boat.'" But Trump says when he won "the whole game changed and the Russian excuse became the narrative of the Dems." 
 
 Trump's tweet Tuesday included a quote from Obama saying in October 2016 that "there is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even rig America's elections." Obama was addressing Trump's claims of voter fraud, not Russia's attempt to influence voters on social media. 
 
 Obama has defended his response to Russian meddling, saying he had told the Russian president to "cut it out." ||||| A man who communicated with former Trump campaign adviser Richard Gates has pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI in special counsel Robert Mueller Robert Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE's probe into Russian election interference. 
 
 Attorney Alex Van Der Zwaan was charged with making “materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements and representations” to the special counsel’s office and FBI agents, according to a court filing released Tuesday morning. 
 
 He entered a guilty plea on Tuesday afternoon. 
 
 Van Der Zwaan allegedly lied about his last communications with Gates and then deleted emails requested by the special counsel’s office, according to the indictment. 
 
 He allegedly did so as part of his work for a firm hired by the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice to prepare a report on the trial of Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister of Ukraine. 
 
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 The new charges come as Gates is reportedly nearing a plea deal with Mueller that could lead to his testimony against Paul Manafort Paul John ManafortTrump slams NSA for deleting call records, calls it a ‘disgrace’ Manafort's assistant gave FBI access to evidence in storage locker: report Federal judge agrees nonpartisan commission beats special counsel MORE, President Trump Donald John TrumpChelsea Handler issues July 4 apology to world: 'We’re sorry about our president' US pork producers prepare for steep tariffs: 'I don't want to be the patriot who dies at the end of the war' ACLU membership grew from 400,000 to 1.84 million after Trump was elected: report MORE's former campaign chairman. 
 
 Gates was Manafort's business partner. Mueller indicted Gates and Manafort together last year, accusing them of working together over the years to launder money, among other crimes. 
 
 The pair had worked for lobbying clients overseas, including Viktor Yanukovych, a former president of Ukraine allied with Russia. 
 
 Van Der Zwaan is accused of making false statements to the FBI about a report that he helped the Ukraine's Justice Ministry prepare in 2012 on the trial of a Ukrainian politician named Yulia Tymoshenko. 
 
 The charges appear to be related to a report produced by the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom that helped the Ukrainian government counter international criticism that the 2011 prosecution and conviction of Tymoshenko had been driven by political aims. 
 
 Van Der Zwaan was an associate in Skadden's London office, according to reports. The law firm told CNBC in a statement that it "terminated its employment of Alex van der Zwaan in 2017 and has been cooperating with authorities in connection with this matter." 
 
 The New York Times reported last year that the law firm's report was arranged by Manafort as part of his work for Yanukovych. 
 
 According to the document released Tuesday, Van Der Zwaan lied when he told investigators that his last communication with Gates was in mid-August 2016, and that his last communication with an individual identified only as “Person A” was in 2014, at which point the two “discussed Person A’s family.” 
 
 The document states that Van Der Zwaan actually spoke with Gates and “Person A” regarding a report on the trial and “surreptitiously recorded the calls.” It also says that he deleted or did not produce emails to the special counsel’s office, including a September 2016 correspondence between him and “Person A.” 
 
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 Special counsel Robert Mueller filed a new indictment on Thursday against former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort and former campaign aide Rick Gates, charging them with new tax and bank fraud crimes and hiking the amount of money they allegedly laundered to more than $30 million. 
 
 The 32-count indictment was filed in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia, further stepping up the pressure on Manfort and Gates as Mueller's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election gains momentum. 
 
 A previous indictment, charging the pair with money laundering, conspiracy and other offenses stemming from their lobbying work on behalf of pro-Russian political figures in Ukraine was filed in federal court in Washington in October. 
 
 A spokesman for Manafort said in a statement that he is innocent and believes he will be exonerated. 
 
 "The new allegations against Mr. Manafort, once again, have nothing to do with Russia and 2016 election interference/collusion. Mr. Manafort is confident that he will be acquitted and violations of his constitutional rights will be remedied," the statement said. 
 
 Gates just fired his lawyers and a new attorney, Tom Green of Sidley Austin LLP, also did not respond. 
 
 Some of the charges in Virginia mirror the charges in Washington, while others are brand new. Manafort and Gates are now both accused of tax evasion and not reporting money in foreign accounts, and they are also accused of misleading banks on paperwork for millions in real-estate loans obtained in 2016. 
 
 Among the new allegations: 
 
 When Manafort was 90 days behind on paying a $300,000 American Express bill, which affected his credit rating, he lied to Federal Savings Bank and told them Gates had borrowed the card and run up the charges but planned to pay them. 
 
 Gates gave Citizens Bank an outdated insurance report that did not list a $5 million loan that Manafort had from another bank on a property in New York City. 
 
 Gates asked a bookkeeper to juice the revenue for Manafort's company and, when the bookkeeper refused, falsified a profit-and-loss statement to show more than 10 times the actual income and sent it to a bank where he had a loan. 
 
 Manafort submitted a falsified document overstating income by $2 million to a lender, and a conspirator working there replied, "Looks Dr'd. Can someone just do a clean excel doc and pdf to me?" A new version was allegedly submitted. 
 
 In addition, while Manafort was originally indicted on charges he laundered $18 million through offshore bank accounts, the new indictment pushes that sum to $30 million. Gates remains accused of moving $3 million from offshore accounts. 
 
 Paul Manafort arrives for a hearing at U.S. District Court in Washington on Nov. 2, 2017. Aaron P. Bernstein / Reuters 
 
 Mueller explained in a status report that some of the new charges could not be brought in Washington without the approval of the defendants. 
 
 "Prior to instituting this criminal action, the Special Counsel’s Office met with defense counsel to go over the proof underlying the bank fraud charges ... and to provide counsel an opportunity to present any arguments as to why these charges should not be brought," Mueller wrote in a status update on the case. 
 
 Mueller said he was prepared to bring all the charges in Washington if the defendants would waive venue but one of them chose not to. 
 
 Related: Mueller investigating if Manafort promised White House job in return for loans 
 
 President Trump's lawyer, Ty Cobb, had no comment on the Virginia indictment. 
 
 The new indictment is the latest in a series of significant moves by Mueller. Earlier this week, he announced a plea agreement with Russia-connected lawyer Alex van der Zwaan, who admitted to lying to investigators about his contacts with Gates. That came on the heels of an indictment of 13 Russian nationals accused of interfering in the 2016 election. 
 
 CORRECTION (5:30 p.m. ET, Feb. 22, 2018): An earlier version of this article misstated the first name of one of the men charged in the indictment. His name is Rick Gates, not Robert Gates.
– More Robert Mueller moves: Prosecutors have charged an attorney they say lied to federal investigators in the Russia probe, reports the Hill. A document filed in federal court in Washington Tuesday accuses Alex Van Der Zwaan of one charge of making false statements, per the AP. The information was filed ahead of a plea hearing scheduled for later Tuesday. The court filing says Van Der Zwaan lied to investigators about his interactions with Rick Gates, a former Trump campaign aide who was indicted last year on charges of conspiracy to launder money and acting as an unregistered foreign agent. Gates is reportedly planning to plead guilty and testify against former campaign chief Paul Manafort.