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Title: Ex-Trump campaign aide Papadopoulos sentenced to 14 days in prison
Post by: mystery-ak on September 07, 2018, 08:52:39 pm
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September 7, 2018 / 8:06 AM / Updated 10 minutes ago
Ex-Trump campaign aide Papadopoulos sentenced to 14 days in prison

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday sentenced President Donald Trump’s former campaign aide George Papadopoulos to 14 days in prison for lying to the FBI during its investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Papadopoulos pleaded guilty in October 2017 to lying to FBI agents about the timing and significance of his contacts with Russians, including a professor who told him the Russians had “dirt” on Trump’s Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-papadopoulos/ex-trump-campaign-aide-papadopoulos-sentenced-to-14-days-in-prison-idUSKCN1LN1OG (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-papadopoulos/ex-trump-campaign-aide-papadopoulos-sentenced-to-14-days-in-prison-idUSKCN1LN1OG)
Title: Re: Ex-Trump campaign aide Papadopoulos sentenced to 14 days in prison
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on September 07, 2018, 10:34:55 pm
Oh my.
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Title: Re: Ex-Trump campaign aide Papadopoulos sentenced to 14 days in prison
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on September 07, 2018, 10:47:53 pm
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/07/politics/george-papadopoulos-sentencing-hearing/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/07/politics/george-papadopoulos-sentencing-hearing/index.html)

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Papadopoulos' defense attorney, Thomas Breen, pointed fingers at President Donald Trump.

"The President of the United States hindered this investigation more than George Papadopoulos ever did," Breen said.

Breen told a rapt courtroom that Papadopoulos has already faced his penalty over the past year, and realized he needed to disavow the Trump administration in favor of the truth.

"The message is for all of us to check our loyalty, to tell the truth, to help the good guys," Breen said. He recalled how he and attorney Robert Stanley and Papadopoulos visited the FBI office in Chicago months ago and noticed the photos of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Trump hanging on the lobby wall.
"We were going in there to cooperate potentially against those two individuals," he said.

With the sentence, the young man whom Trump administration officials called a "coffee boy" and whose family members have argued is caught in a spy conspiracy will become the first Trump campaign affiliate to have his criminal case reach its completion in the court system.

hind·er1 ˈhindər/
verb
past tense: hindered; past participle: hindered

    create difficulties for (someone or something), resulting in delay or obstruction.
    "various family stalemates were hindering communication"
    synonyms:   hamper, obstruct, impede, inhibit, retard, balk, prevent, thwart, foil, curb, delay, arrest, interfere with, set back, slow down, hobble, hold back, hold up, stop, halt;
Title: Re: Ex-Trump campaign aide Papadopoulos sentenced to 14 days in prison
Post by: Wingnut on September 07, 2018, 10:53:01 pm
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is really rack'n and stack'n those criminals deep in the #meintheassfederalprisions.

Title: Re: Ex-Trump campaign aide Papadopoulos sentenced to 14 days in prison
Post by: Sanguine on September 07, 2018, 10:57:51 pm
14 days?  What an odd sentence.
Title: Re: Ex-Trump campaign aide Papadopoulos sentenced to 14 days in prison
Post by: Wingnut on September 07, 2018, 10:58:53 pm
14 days?  What an odd sentence.

I don't know.  I got 13 days for malingering with intent one time.
Title: Re: Ex-Trump campaign aide Papadopoulos sentenced to 14 days in prison
Post by: skeeter on September 07, 2018, 11:03:21 pm
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is really rack'n and stack'n those criminals deep in the #meintheassfederalprisions.

There hasn't been this much excitement in the federal law enforcement community since Hoover took out Dillinger.
Title: Re: Ex-Trump campaign aide Papadopoulos sentenced to 14 days in prison
Post by: Sanguine on September 07, 2018, 11:44:23 pm
I don't know.  I got 13 days for malingering with intent one time.

Intentional malingering? 
Title: Re: Ex-Trump campaign aide Papadopoulos sentenced to 14 days in prison
Post by: Wingnut on September 07, 2018, 11:46:48 pm
Intentional malingering?

"Intentional"  wasn't proven.