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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 07:23 AM Jun 2018

A pardon for the coffee boy? Mueller seeks September sentencing for Papadopoulos

Mueller seeks September sentencing for Papadopoulos



https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/22/mueller-george-papadopoulos-sentencing-667169

Special counsel Robert Mueller is asking that George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, be sentenced in September on the false-statement felony charge he pleaded guilty to last fall.

In a court filing on Friday evening, Mueller’s prosecutors and defense attorneys in the case asked U.S. District Court Judge Randy Moss to set Papadopoulos’ sentencing for Sept. 7, or a date in October if the judge is unavailable.

If the hearing goes forward as scheduled, Papadopoulos could become the second defendant sentenced in Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

In April, Alex van der Zwaan, a Dutch attorney, was sentenced to 30 days in federal custody for the same charge: lying in the course of a federal investigation. Van der Zwaan admitted that he misled prosecutors about contacts related to work his law firm did as part of a campaign aimed at burnishing the image of Viktor Yanukovych, the president of Ukraine at the time.
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A pardon for the coffee boy? Mueller seeks September sentencing for Papadopoulos (Original Post) Miles Archer Jun 2018 OP
A pardon? PJMcK Jun 2018 #1

PJMcK

(22,050 posts)
1. A pardon?
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 09:14 AM
Jun 2018

If Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty, he's admitted his guilt. Presumably, he has already given testimony and possibly evidence to Robert Mueller's investigators. Accordingly, a pardon from Trump will have little effect other than keeping Papadopoulos out of jail and since Trump doesn't care about the "coffee boy," it's unlikely he'll get involved.

The sentencing will probably be fairly light as it was with van der Zwaan: 30 days is a lot less than Manafort is facing!

Anyway, I'm happy to see these criminals exposed as justice grinds forward.

And thanks for the link, Miles Archer. Enjoy your weekend.

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