Latest Breaking News

DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Fri Dec 29, 2017, 05:34 PM Dec 2017

Judge denies Rick Gates request to leave house arrest for New Year's Eve party

Source: The Hill

BY JOSH DELK - 12/29/17 04:29 PM EST

A judge on Friday denied a request from Rick Gates, who was indicted in Robert Mueller's Russia probe, to leave house arrest to attend a New Year's Eve party.

Gates, a business associate of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, had asked to "accompany his family to events for the New Year's Eve holiday from Sunday, December 31, 2017, through Monday, January 1, 2017." Judge Amy Berman Jackson rejected Gates on Friday, saying the motion was not filed before a court-mandated deadline.

Link to tweet

Gates has been under house arrest since October, when he was charged with crimes including money laundering and failing to register as a lobbyist for a foreign government. The charges come from Mueller's probe into Russian election meddling.

Judge Jackson previously denied a request from Gates to leave house arrest to drive his children to school.

###

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/366821-judge-denies-rick-gates-request-to-leave-house-arrest-for-new-years

16 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Judge denies Rick Gates request to leave house arrest for New Year's Eve party (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2017 OP

Here is someone clueless about the severity of his crime. A party? Really? chelsea0011 Dec 2017 #1

yea he's an idiot bluestarone Dec 2017 #2

none of these idiots have a clue..... dawnie51 Dec 2017 #3

What party? NastyRiffraff Dec 2017 #6

You are probably right. chelsea0011 Dec 2017 #12

Good. It's important WhiteTara Dec 2017 #4

fuck Gates and all the rest of them gopiscrap Dec 2017 #5

The judge, courts, and prosecutors are colluding against him bucolic_frolic Dec 2017 #7

These are the ramblings of a crazy man. Dave Starsky Dec 2017 #10

No collusion? Okay. How about some conspiracy and collaboration? Massive quantities of them. Leghorn21 Dec 2017 #11

Bummer. Now he has a chance to see what New Years eve will be like in prison. marble falls Dec 2017 #8

Wait a minute. Didn't this same judge just let Manafort out of house arrest? ProudLib72 Dec 2017 #9

Ummmmm......no. paleotn Dec 2017 #13

The party hosts will understand. Sneederbunk Dec 2017 #14

they should make him go They_Live Dec 2017 #15

I like Judge Jackson jmowreader Dec 2017 #16

chelsea0011

(10,115 posts)

1. Here is someone clueless about the severity of his crime. A party? Really?

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 05:37 PM

Dec 2017

bluestarone

(17,056 posts)

2. yea he's an idiot

Reply to chelsea0011 (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 05:41 PM

Dec 2017

that's for sure

dawnie51

(959 posts)

3. none of these idiots have a clue.....

Reply to chelsea0011 (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 05:42 PM

Dec 2017

either they are too stupid to know what they've done, or they believe they are now and will be above the law. I'm beginning to wonder if they may be right.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)

6. What party?

Reply to chelsea0011 (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 05:45 PM

Dec 2017

His bags were probably packed. He's under house arrest precisely because he's an escape risk.

chelsea0011

(10,115 posts)

12. You are probably right.

Reply to NastyRiffraff (Reply #6)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 06:47 PM

Dec 2017

WhiteTara

(29,722 posts)

4. Good. It's important

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 05:42 PM

Dec 2017

gopiscrap

(23,765 posts)

5. fuck Gates and all the rest of them

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 05:43 PM

Dec 2017

they should be in a prison cell wearing orange

bucolic_frolic

(43,307 posts)

7. The judge, courts, and prosecutors are colluding against him

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 05:48 PM

Dec 2017

Link to tweet

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)

10. These are the ramblings of a crazy man.

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #7)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 06:26 PM

Dec 2017

This is the President of our nation.

Good Lord, please help us.

Leghorn21

(13,526 posts)

11. No collusion? Okay. How about some conspiracy and collaboration? Massive quantities of them.

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #7)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 06:39 PM

Dec 2017

I totally prefer to use those terms anyway.

Also, what a fucking idiot.

marble falls

(57,251 posts)

8. Bummer. Now he has a chance to see what New Years eve will be like in prison.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 05:52 PM

Dec 2017

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)

9. Wait a minute. Didn't this same judge just let Manafort out of house arrest?

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 06:07 PM

Dec 2017

I think Manafort is more important, but I could be wrong.

paleotn

(17,989 posts)

13. Ummmmm......no.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 06:52 PM

Dec 2017

Sneederbunk

(14,305 posts)

14. The party hosts will understand.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 07:24 PM

Dec 2017

They_Live

(3,240 posts)

15. they should make him go

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 09:52 PM

Dec 2017

but he has to wear a wire.

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)

16. I like Judge Jackson

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Dec 29, 2017, 11:31 PM

Dec 2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Berman_Jackson

She threw out a wrongful-death suit filed by families of two of the four Americans killed in Benghazi, ordered the Roman Catholic Diocese of Washington to obey the ACA's contraceptive mandate, threw Jesse Jackson Jr. in the pokey, and is Robert Mueller's judge of choice.

Reply to this discussion