'Extraordinary cooperation': Key Mueller witness and Manafort partner Rick Gates gets 45 days
by Jerry Dunleavy
| December 17, 2019 11:56 AM
Rick Gates, a key witness in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, was sentenced Tuesday to 45 days in jail, which he can serve on weekends, and three years of probation.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson said she'd watched Gates testify twice and found him "extremely candid."
"He didn't appear to embroider the evidence to advance the government's case," Jackson said. "And he didn't come across as some bought and paid-for puppet."
The business associate of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and a Republican operative found himself at the center of Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia. Gates was charged on two separate courts for a host of foreign-based financial schemes before he agreed to cooperate with the government.
Gates is mentioned more than 100 times in Mueller’s lengthy report, and his description of key events appears throughout.
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