Robert Mueller released his witness list for the Paul Manafort trial

Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Friday submitted a list of 35 witnesses for the upcoming trial of former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort.

Manafort is charged with financial crimes, including tax evasion and bank fraud, that generally predate his time on the campaign trail. In a second trial scheduled for September, also prosecuted by Mueller's team, he faces charges including obstruction of justice and witness tampering in connection to his lobbying work for a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party.

Notable names on the witness list include Richard Gates, Manafort's former business partner, as well as political consultants Daniel Rabin and Tad Devine, both of whom have also worked in Ukraine. Devine was a top campaign strategist for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in 2016.

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A number of witnesses are bank executives and accountants who can testify to the financial activities which are the focus of this trial. "The case will be proven by paper and those people who have a transactional relationship to the paper," Michael Zeldin, a former federal prosecutor, told Reuters. "All those people to say essentially that Manafort knew what he was doing."

The first trial begins Tuesday.