Paul Manafort’s former right-hand man gave a bank executive a wildly inflated figure for their firm’s annual income to help him get a loan, a bookkeeper testified Thursday at Manafort’s tax and bank fraud trial.

Rick Gates sent a March 2016 email to the Banc of California claiming that Manafort’s consulting company raked in $4.45 million during the previous year, Heather Washkuhn told jurors in Alexandria, Va., federal court.

But Washkuhn said her accounting company, NKFSB, had calculated the actual amount was about $400,000, Reuters reported.

During opening statements on Monday, the defense claimed that Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, was being set up by Gates, who cut a plea deal with Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller to serve as the star witness against Manafort.

Earlier Thursday, prosecutor Greg Andres told federal Judge T.S. Ellis III that his team had “every intention” of calling Gates to the witness stand, a day after another prosecutor waffled on whether Gates would testify.