Rick Gates sentenced to short jail sentence, 3 years probation and fine. (attorneys, crimes)

[Cruithne]

Another one of Trumps associates faces jail time.


https://www.npr.org/2019/12/17/78849...5-days-in-jail

Rick Gates, the former top Trump campaign official who pleaded guilty to a range of crimes before becoming a key witness in the Russia investigation, was sentenced to 45 days in jail on Tuesday.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson also sentenced Gates to three years of probation and ordered him to pay a $20,000 fine.

[Cruithne]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...il/2636735001/

Gates is one of six former Trump associates and campaign aides indicted as part of former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's efforts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.
Gates testified against two of them, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and longtime Trump ally Roger Stone. Both were convicted.
Citing Gates' "extraordinary" cooperation, Assistant U.S. Attorney Molly Gaston agreed with defense attorneys that he should be sentenced to probation. Gaston said it's hard to imagine the "turbulent atmosphere" in which Gates decided to plead guilty.

[Ringo1]

He's been cooperating for a long time.

[ChiGeekGuest]

Interesting piece here:

Judge while sentencing Trump campaign aide: 'If people don't have the facts, democracy doesn't work'

"Washington (CNN)Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson took several minutes during her sentencing of top Mueller cooperator Rick Gates on Tuesday to comment on the Russia investigation, the significance of Gates' choice to cooperate and the gravity of the facts that investigators found regarding Gates' and Paul Manafort's crimes and Russian's interaction with the Trump campaign.

At times, Jackson appeared to be commenting implicitly on Attorney General William Barr and the President's criticism of the early Russian investigation, and especially the President's broadsides against the facts of the matter."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/17/polit...arr/index.html

[Dbones]

wow..Such big crimes to get 45 days LMAO what a fail.