Monday, 19 February 2018

Former Trump campaign aide will reportedly plead guilty, cooperate with special counsel - The Boston Globe

quote [ Rick Gates, a former Trump campaign aide indicted Oct. 27 with Paul Manafort on charges of money laundering and illegal foreign lobbying, will plead guilty and cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Gates will admit to fraud-related charges in the next few days and agree to testify against Manafort, who worked for several months as Donald Trump’s campaign chairman in the 2016 presidential election, the paper reported, citing people familiar with the case whom it did not identify. ]

On Presidents day even...
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cb361 said @ 3:55pm GMT on 19th Feb
Plead guilty to what? Everybody associated with Trump seems to be up to something, but the somethings are probably very varied.
LurkerAtTheGate said @ 6:22pm GMT on 19th Feb
The Gates & Manafort indictment refers to them as a pair, assuming i found the right indictment text. All charges are "Manafort and Gates"; the only difference seems to be how many millions each is accused of laundering.

Though, grain of salt, the whole chain of articles started with "someone speaking on condition of anonymity" b/c they're breaking a gag order on a fairly major corruption trial.
bbqkink said @ 12:30am GMT on 20th Feb
I believe they said fraud I do remember the sentence was 18 months
eggboy said @ 7:36pm GMT on 19th Feb
Strange to see Mueller's office leaking
bbqkink said @ 8:42pm GMT on 19th Feb [Score:1 Informative]
He's not... this is from Gates new lawyer.

"Rick Gates is going to change his plea to guilty,'' said a person with direct knowledge of the new developments, adding that the revised plea will be presented in federal court in Washington "within the next few days.''

That individual and others who discussed the matter spoke on condition of anonymity, citing a judge's gag order restricting comments about the case to the news media or public.

Gates' defense lawyer, Thomas C. Green, did not respond to messages left by phone and email. Peter Carr, a spokesman for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, declined on Saturday to comment.

coffeejoejava said @ 2:27am GMT on 21st Feb
Please remember that the alleged crimes he and Manafort committed took place YEARS before their involvement with Trump campaign and his presidency. All it proves is that they were doing stuff before hitching their stars to Trump.
milkman666 said @ 4:43pm GMT on 21st Feb
True. It never looks good though when you're accused of robbery and have cat burglers and safecrackers on the payroll.
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