(Commentary, including reposted material. Temporarily posted. 12/17/19 source article for title quotation (link):
https://www.npr.org/2019/12/17/788490826/rick-gates-key-witness-in-mueller-investigation-sentenced-to-45-days-in-jail)
12/17/19 news article (link): "Former Trump campaign official Rick Gates gets 45 days in jail after cooperation in lobbying case"
Brief excerpt:
"Rick Gates, the former deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump and ex-business-partner of Paul Manafort, was sentenced Tuesday to 45 days in jail and three years' probation...
...Gates and [Rick] Manafort, who served as President Donald Trump's campaign chairman, were the first former Trump campaign officials to be charged by former special counsel Robert Mueller's prosecutors, accused of evading taxes and violating federal lobbying laws by concealing millions of dollars they earned representing pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine. Manafort was convicted after a jury trial in Alexandria, Virginia, and pleaded guilty to related charges in a separate case in Washington. He is serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence in federal prison."
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"Lock him up..."
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