NEW: RICK GATES rejected several offers of a plea deal from special counsel, as talks continued over

[MelissaB]

NEW: RICK GATES rejected several offers of a plea deal from special counsel, as talks continued over the past month. The talks broke down over the last few days -- yet they were still negotiating as of Thursday

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[AJT]

1. Better to go to prison than die of polonium poisoning.

[yardwork]

7. Maybe Witness Protection is on the table.

[AJT]

8. I think it's too late, they have refused any deal.

[yardwork]

9. They're so narcissistic, I think they plan to beat the charges.

[AJT]

10. 45 will pardon them. So far they are all federal charges.

[uponit7771]

11. +1, looks like state charges have to be order of the day

[panader0]

2. Perhaps these guys feel safer in prison?

[MelissaB]

3. More: Tom Green is IN, repping Rick Gates. Means a plea deal may be on the near-horizon.

Tom Green is IN, repping Rick Gates. Means a plea deal may be on the near-horizon. This was filed in federal court ~40 minutes AFTER Daily Beast reported Gates fired Tom Green.

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[octoberlib]

4. Gates is probably trying to hold out in the hope that he gets something better. He better have some

good, incriminating information , though.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. He must know a lot if Mueller has made multiple deal offers. Isn't it

usually a take it or leave it deal?

[GreydeeThos]

6. You should have taken the deal Mr. Gates (now you are going to prison)

Mueller probably offered him a deal, but Gates thought he could do better if he played the waiting game. Loser, now he is going to play the barter for cigarettes game in the cell block.

[rusty fender]

12. Werent we under the impression that Gates

had flipped