So, Rick Gates, who was working for Tom Barrack, had a lawyer from Sidley Austin..
Gates was working with Tom Barrack (chair of Trump inauguration) to establish an office in DC to cash in off of Trumps $1 trillion infrastructure plan (which didn't happen)…
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Railways, buses, highways, airports and ports were all potential opportunities, according to the document. The plan called for a White House liaison, as well as two employees each for interacting with the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. But Trump’s plan never took root, and the Colony office in D.C. never materialized.
A spokesman for Colony said the plan for a Washington office was conceived by Rick Gates, a trusted deputy of Barrack’s. Gates had helped orchestrate the inauguration and chairman’s dinner, according to two people familiar with the matter. He later pleaded guilty to conspiracy and false statement charges related to his work as the right-hand man of Paul Manafort when they did political consulting in Ukraine.
“This memo was simply an outline of a proposed potential business plan from Rick Gates, which was never acted upon or implemented,” said Owen Blicksilver, a spokesman for Colony. “Colony at no time has maintained a D.C. office.”
Tom Green, a lawyer for Gates at Sidley Austin, declined to comment.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-05/trump-s-inaugural-chairman-looked-to-cash-in-on-infrastructure
It was Barrack, along with Kushner, who talked Trump into hiring Manafort.