Papadopoulos ordered to jail Monday
Source: Politico
By JOSH GERSTEIN 11/25/2018 10:17 AM EST Updated 11/25/2018 10:22 AM EST
A federal judge has rejected a last-ditch bid by former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos to put off his looming but brief federal prison sentence.
In ruling issued just a day before Papapdopoulos was scheduled to report to serve his two-week sentence for making false statements to FBI agents investigating alleged links between the Trump campaign and Russia, U.S. District Court Judge Randy Moss said Papadopouloss legal arguments fell short of what was needed to justify delaying the sentence Moss imposed in September.
When Papapdopoulos entered his guilty plea last year, he passed up the opportunity to challenge special counsel Robert Muellers authority and the legality of his appointment, but in a pair of motions last week, the former Trump campaign adviser tried to harness a pending appeal in another case where a grand jury witness is leveling a legal attack on Muellers power.
However, Moss said in his 13-page ruling Sunday that Papadopoulos decision not to appeal his sentence and his agreement not to do so under most circumstances, left him with no viable legal avenue to demand relief. The judge also said he saw little likelihood the pending challenge to Muellers authority would prevail.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/25/george-papadopoulos-mueller-jail-1013330
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Jarqui
(10,126 posts)he's lucky he didn't get more.
brush
(53,791 posts)What does he think is going to happened, that his conviction is going to be wiped out?
He's luck he just got two weeks in jail. He needs to quit delaying and get it over with.
Jarqui
(10,126 posts)what he's said and done since (illustrating no remorse), he basically lied to the judge to get a light sentence and is not being held to account for it.
He may regret his actions if more is discovered that he didn't talk to Mueller about, and that's very likely to happen.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)For so submissively following the orders of the republican Draft-dodger-in-Chief
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)mac56
(17,570 posts)He served Folger's and was convicted by an all-hipster jury who drink only pour-over artisanal Fair Trade coffee.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)Quote: "The judge also said he saw little likelihood the pending challenge to Muellers authority would prevail.".....
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DesertRat
(27,995 posts)ffr
(22,670 posts)FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)badhair77
(4,218 posts)mitch96
(13,912 posts)When he's in the slammer being bubba's bitch... Karma!!
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GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)I know its tempting. Believe me, it tempting. But lets not go there.
mitch96
(13,912 posts)Just your average guy who does not care for the republican platform.
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PeeJ52
(1,588 posts)where he's going to serve his time and if he gets his own private room of if he's going to be thrown in with the rest of the general prison population. I sure hope he gets a "taste" of what it is like to really be in jail...
Ptah
(33,032 posts)Iggo
(47,558 posts)harumph
(1,902 posts)Iggo
(47,558 posts)That's cute.
janterry
(4,429 posts)so, it shouldn't be that hard.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Historic NY
(37,451 posts)Coventina
(27,121 posts)bluestarone
(16,976 posts)I hope so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)2 weeks? That's it?
What a weeny...
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)ret5hd
(20,499 posts)drop an "upper class" into the middle of gen-pop for a two week sentence do you?
Hell, it will take them a good part of that time just to get him processed and assigned to a "permanent" cell.
mitch96
(13,912 posts)I think Martha Stewart got more time for lying... Jeeze he is acting like he is going to SingSing for life... a little snowflake.. he might melt in jail..
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MineralMan
(146,317 posts)demsocialist
(202 posts)What a joke. And he tried to get out of it. What a chickenshit.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)marble falls
(57,112 posts)canetoad
(17,169 posts)From a non US person who has stopped laughing at the hapless George PapaD long enough to type it: What are the consequences of being a federally convicted prisoner once he has served his sentence?
I'm thinking along the lines of employment opportunities closed; are there positions he cannot hold in the future, organisations he cannot join? It may be a short sentence but I suspect it will have a large impact on his future. Thoughts?
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)canetoad
(17,169 posts)As the song said, "Always something there to remind me."
empedocles
(15,751 posts)DU could use a running tally of trumpsters who have been jailed? [To 'remind us']
brush
(53,791 posts)in the future. His blonde wife is probably considering her options with him now as well.
AKing
(511 posts)is cold weather.
SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)Lock him up!
homegirl
(1,429 posts)a. Two months in jail-two week is ridiculous!
b. One year house arrest with an ankle monitor.