Mr. Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty last year, is the first Trump campaign adviser to be sentenced as part of the continuing investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III. Three others pleaded guilty or were convicted of felonies and await sentencing.
Though lying to federal investigators is not typically punished by incarceration, United States District Judge Randolph D. Moss said that Mr. Papadopoulos deserved prison time because he had deceived investigators probing “a matter of grave national importance.” He also fined him $9,500 and ordered him to complete 200 hours of community service and one year of probation after his release.
One has to wonder exactly what it was that caused a "delay" in this particular sentence (or in the General Flynn sentence) - So far, these lying to federal investigators is averaging about a 20 day sentence. Between the "no incarceration" that is typical and the 30-60 days that seems to be near the top of the sentences for these crimes, it certainly would not appear that Mueller ever really had any leverage with these people.14 days for $28 MILLION - $2 MILLION a day, No Collusion. A great day for America!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 7, 2018
Nah, it is now appearing that these charges were paramount to grandstanding for the media and anti-Trumpers. Similar to the indictments brought against Russians. It would appear (other than settling an old score with Paul Manafort over crimes that had nothing to do with his probe) that this entire thing is about grandstanding.
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How much of this will he actually need to serve?
A few days ?
Maybe anonymous can serve the time for him.
Maybe he is anonymous???????
Papadopoulos Details His Interactions With ‘Spygate’ Figure And Steele Dossier Source
Halper reached out to Papadopoulos on Sept. 2, 2016 with an offer to fly the young campaign aide to London and to write an academic paper on energy issues in Cyprus, Turkey and Israel.
“I receive an unsolicited email from Stefan Halper who I thought was a Cambridge professor inviting me,” Papadopoulos said to CNN’s Jake Tapper.
“So he reached out to me and he said, ‘I want you to write a paper for me on your expertise,’ which is gas discoveries in Israel and Turkey and Cyprus. I said ‘of course,’ you know I have no issue with that. It was a nice honorarium of $3,000, a free flight to London, a five-star hotel for two or three days of work,” he said, adding:
I joined him about a week later over drinks in London where all of a sudden he pulls out his phone, everyone has phones when they meet with me, and he places in the front of him and he begins to tell me, “So George, hacking is in the interest of your campaign. Of course the Russians are helping you.” These open-ended questions, and “of course you’re probably involved in it, too. That’s correct, right, George?”
“I told him, ‘I have no idea what you’re talking about,’ because of course I had nothing to do with Russian interference or hacking, whatsoever,” he said. “So then he began to sweat, his demeanor changed, he became quite aggressive in his questioning.”
Halper, who served in four Republican administrations, was revealed in May to be a longtime FBI and CIA source. President Donald Trump and his allies have used the term “Spygate” to refer to the FBI’s use of an informant to make contact with campaign aides.
Papadopoulos also provided new details about Millian, a Belarusian-American businessman who runs an obscure trade group called the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce.
“He reached out to me out of the blue on LinkedIn where he stated in quite confident terms he was working for Trump real estate projects, he was promoting real estate endeavors of Trump,” Papadopoulos told Tapper.
“He presented some sort of shady business proposal to me, which I rejected flat out about, ‘Work for me for $30,000 a month’ as some sort of PR consultant for an energy firm in Russia, which I never understood who it was, where the money was coming from and why me, except the qualifier was that I had to work for Trump at the same time,” he said.
“I just rejected it flat out, and I started to be suspicious,” said Papadopoulos.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/09/08/papadopoulos-discusses-halper-dossier/
You're grasping at straws.
When the deep state conspiracy releases the report with credible evidence of conspiracy with the Russians and objection of justice you will deny any credibility of wrongdoing and declare victory.
...credible evidence of conspiracy with the Russians and objection of justice you will deny any credibility of wrongdoing and declare victory.
All evidence points at Hillary for using and paying Russians yet you deny any credibility of wrongdoing and declare Trump guilty.
But you are right I don't trust Mueller and his team, as don't the majority of Americans. A balanced investigation would have been nice and would have had some credibility.
btw did you notice no Russian collusion with Papadopoulos, but a government spy was trying to entrap him?
Who knew objection of justice was even a crime? I think you have a first amendment right to object.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
You're grasping at straws.
When the deep state conspiracy releases the report with credible evidence of conspiracy with the Russians and objection of justice you will deny any credibility of wrongdoing and declare victory.
well alky, i strongly suspect that if mueller had evidence we'd be seeing it by now.
and if the guy who was supposedly the genesis of the entire case is only getting 2 weeks in the clink, me thinks you're the one grasping at straws.
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