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"I am sorry for what I have done and for all the activities that have gotten us here today," Manafort told the judge.
Gates, a key witness against Manafort, has yet to be sentenced due to his ongoing cooperation with prosecutors.
Manafort faces sentencing in a separate case in Washington on March 13 on two conspiracy charges to which he pleaded guilty last September.
The recommendation from Mueller increases the likelihood that Manafort will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Mueller contends that Manafort lied about the number of times he and Kilimnik discussed the topic, the description of which is mostly redacted in the transcript.
In December Mueller accused Manafort in a court filing of telling "multiple discernible lies" related to five subjects, including his interactions with Kilimnik and his contacts with Trump administration officials in 2018.
A spokesman for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, whose office is prosecuting Manafort, declined to comment. Kilimnik could not be reached for comment.
President Donald Trump expressed sympathy for his former campaign manager Paul Manafort and said he would remain "uninvolved" after he attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the U.S. Justice Department in an interview broadcast on Thursday.
Cynthia Laporta, who prepared Manafort`s tax returns starting in 2014, told a jury in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, that she was testifying under an immunity agreement with the government to avoid being prosecuted as Manafort was charged with bank fraud and tax fraud.
The last time a US president was in Asia for so long - close to two weeks - was in late 1991 and early 1992, when President George H.W. Bush became ill at a Japanese state dinner.
Federal investigators probing alleged Russian interference in last year`s US presidential election.
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been told to surrender to federal authorities on Monday.
It was unclear whether Trump himself was picked up by the wiretaps.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has accused the Democrats of "collusion" with Ukraine during the 2016 presidential election.
The White House has alleged that Democrats colluded with Ukraine during the 2016 election, turning the tables on its accusers amid an all-engulfing scandal over Trump's contacts with Russia.
Donald Trump Jr told Fox News that his meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower in June last year was "just a nothing", but in retrospect, he would have done things differently.
Controversy has engulfed Trump since he fired FBI Director James Comey on May 9.
In January, US intelligence officials said in a report that Russia intervened in the US electoral process at least in part to help Donald Trump win.
The Secret Service is eyeing two contiguous floors of Trump Tower for over 250 agents and cops, sources said.
"This morning, Paul Manafort offered, and I accepted, his resignation from the campaign," Trump said in a statement, paying tribute to the 67-year-old veteran strategist and lobbyist's skills.
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