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A former Paul Manafort associate who pleaded guilty to a lobbying crime admitted that he helped foreign donors give money to President Donald Trumps Inaugural Committee.
In a plea agreement made public Friday, prosecutors outlined other crimes that the lobbyist, Sam Patten, admitted to but wouldnt be charged with. Among them was causing foreign money to be paid to the Trump inaugural committee. Patten signed off on the allegation.
Patten pleaded guilty earlier Friday to failing to disclose his lobbying on behalf of Ukraine, and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-08-31/patten-caused-foreign-money-to-be-paid-to-inaugural-committee
Zoonart
(11,866 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,999 posts)By Spencer S. Hsu and
Rosalind S. Helderman
August 31 at 2:02 PM
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In a plea agreement read aloud by the judge, Patten agreed to cooperate in exchange for a government recommendation of leniency at sentencing. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, but both sides agreed there is no recommended sentence under federal guidelines.
Patten stood with his attorney, Stuart A. Sears, and after surrendering his passport and was released on his own recognizance pending sentencing.
Federal prosecutors previously have indicted Kilimnik and Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, on charges of witness tampering in Manaforts criminal conspiracy and money-laundering case pending in the District. Manafort was also convicted this month on bank- and tax-fraud charges in Virginia.
Prosecutors with special counsel Robert S. Mueller IIIs office have said Kilimnik has been assessed by U.S. investigators to have links to Russian intelligence. He and Manafort are charged with repeatedly contacting two members of a public-relations firm and asking them to falsely testify about what prosecutors say was secret lobbying they did at Manaforts behest.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/washington-consultant-for-ukraine-party-set-to-plead-guilty-to-violating-lobbyist-disclosure-law/2018/08/31/172cf2c8-ad23-11e8-a8d7-0f63ab8b1370_story.html?utm_term=.5e77b5bfa4aa
irresistable
(989 posts)It certainly wasn't spent on that pathetic inaugural.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)guy? Rick Gates!!
(Also, this lonnnng article says Barrack was also responsible for hooking Manafort up w/Red Don
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/10/31/what-did-thomas-barrack-know-and-when-did-he-know-it/)
Dis gettin gud
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Trump was courting illegal foreign 'contributions' all through the campaign.