As the Trump administration tried Monday to downplay federal charges against three former campaign aides, it was the case of the least senior of them that suggested the president and those close to him are not yet out of the legal woods.

Most attention Monday focused on the indictment of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and his top associate, Rick Gates. The longtime allies were hit with a dozen charges stemming from their private business practices between 2006 and 2016. There was nothing in a 31-page U.S. government document laying out its case against them to link their alleged illegal actions to Trump or his 2016 presidential campaign.

That gave White House aides and Trump’s private legal team the opportunity to brush off the charges. During a midday CNN interview, Jay Sekulow, one of Trump’s private lawyers, said the Manafort-Gates charges stem from actions taken before the 2016 campaign and are unrelated to Trump’s presidential bid. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders echoed that account during her daily briefing.

But as official Washington pored over the Manafort-Gates indictment document, the Justice Department released another one that detailed a guilty plea entered Oct. 5 by George Papadopoulos. (The plea deal had been sealed until Monday.)

The self-described “foreign policy expert,” who joined the Trump campaign in March 2016, was charged with making false and misleading statements to federal officials who questioned him about the timing and substance of his connections to two Russians. Both of the Russians claimed ties to senior Kremlin officials eager to help Trump’s campaign, and one promised “dirt” on Hillary Clinton after Papadopoulos had joined Trump’s team.