Robert Mueller moves to dismiss charges against Rick Gates following plea deal

[mystery-ak]

Robert Mueller moves to dismiss charges against Rick Gates following plea deal
by Kelly Cohen | Feb 27, 2018, 11:31 AM

Special counsel Robert Mueller has moved to dismiss recently-unveiled charges against Rick Gates, who pleaded guilty last week in federal court in Washington.

Mueller’s office announced last Thursday that a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia had returned a new, 32-count indictment against Gates, and his longterm business partner Paul Manafort.

Shortly after noon Friday, Gates pled guilty to conspiracy against the United States and making a false statement. Gates — the fifth person to plead guilty as part of Mueller’s probe — also signaled his cooperation with the investigation.

Gates first pleaded not guilty to the eight count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Washington in late October.

Manafort has also pleaded not guilty to the October charges in Washington, and was hit with new charges on Friday.

Manafort will be arraigned in Washington on Friday indictment, and in Virginia on Friday.

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[mystery-ak]

WOW he must have really burned Manafort...

[edpc]

WOW he must have really burned Manafort...

They were business partners, so I’m sure he had some insight into what they had allegedly done illegally.  Obviously, being the one time campaign manager and present at the Russian meeting in Trump Tower, Manafort was Mueller’s target all along.  He probably doesn’t have anything to deal, so he’s basically screwed, unless he gets a pardon from Trump.  The freakout over Arpaio’s would be tiny by comparison.

[truth_seeker]

This is all Trump's fault. If any other Republican had won, they would have left him/her alone.

There would not have been a witch hunt into matters from years before the election. /s