When former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and Rick Gates entered not-guilty pleas before a federal magistrate judge on Monday, Manafort was accompanied by his latest lawyer, recently departed Miller & Chevalier partner Kevin Downing.

Gates, on the other hand, appeared to be represented only by a public defender, despite prior news accounts identifying his lawyer as Vinson & Elkins partner Michael Dry, a former federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia.