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Source: Washington Post
A once low-profile foreign policy campaign adviser whose offhand remark in a London bar in May 2016 helped trigger an FBI counterintelligence investigation into President Trump's campaign was sentenced to 14 days incarceration Friday by a federal judge in Washington.
George Papadopoulos, 31, pleaded guilty in October to lying to the FBI about key details of his conversations with a London-based professor who had told him the Russians held dirt, in the form of thousands of emails, on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Papadopoulos tried futilely for months to arrange a meeting between top campaign aides and Russian officials.
In asking the court for leniency, Papadopoulos said he made "a terrible mistake, for which I have paid a terrible price, and am deeply ashamed," and that he was motivated to lie to the FBI try to "create distance between the issue, myself, and the president." In hindsight, he said in court, he recognizes that was wrong and "might have harmed the investigation."
Papadopoulos's attorney, Thomas M. Breen, went further, saying "the President of the United States hindered this investigation more than George Papadopoulos ever could," by calling the investigation fake news and a witch hunt.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/former-trump-adviser-george-papadopoulos-sentenced-to-14-days-in-plea-deal-with-mueller-probe/2018/09/07/bef367a2-b210-11e8-aed9-001309990777_story.html
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By Washington Post Staff
September 7 at 4:41 PM
Papadopoulos, a once low-profile foreign policy campaign adviser, made an offhand remark in a London bar in May 2016 that helped trigger an FBI counterintelligence investigation into President Trump's campaign.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/09/07/former-trump-adviser-george-papadopoulos-sentenced-to-14-days-after-lying-to-fbi-about-russia-related-contacts/?utm_term.c6afa006f05f