California man is "genuinely remorseful" for role in 2016 election interference

[JonLP24]

Source: CBS News

The man who sold the personal banking information of Americans to the Russian nationals indicted for interfering in the 2016 U.S. elections pleaded guilty to one count of identity fraud in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. Richard Pinedo, a California native, will be sentenced in federal court in Washington, D.C. on October 10th. He faces 12-18 months imprisonment according to the guidelines.

A sentencing memo filed Wednesday night indicated prosecutors for the special counsel have no opinion about what his sentence should be. The memo can be read here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17K-OOvpDnZguGQojkWaKTOB1l3QrLAml/preview



Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-man-richard-pinedo-is-genuinely-remorseful-for-role-in-2016-election-interference/

[BadGimp]

1. Fascinating!

Muller could have gleaned some very useful information.

[ancianita]

2. He's probably only genuinely remorseful that he got caught.

[Aristus]

3. Yeah, your remorse does us a lot of good, fuckhead...

[Julian Englis]

4. This guy usually doesn't get counted in Mueller's tally of convictions. Wonder why? n/t

[JI7]

5. didn't read the article but maybe because he wasn't knowingly involved

with the larger plan of affecting the election.

it was more of them finding a guy they could bribe at the moment to give up something he had access to in exchange for money.

but i haven't read the article or other details so i could be wrong about that.

either way he should still be considered as one of the convictions. he still knowingly did something illegal .