Rick Gates, Ex-Trump Aide and Key Witness for Mueller, Is Sentenced to 45 Days in Jail

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Source: New York Times




WASHINGTON — Rick Gates, the former Trump campaign aide who helped bring down two former advisers to President Trump, was sentenced on Tuesday to 45 days in jail and a $20,000 fine for his part in a criminal financial scheme and for lying to federal investigators.

Mr. Gates, 47, can serve the jail time intermittently if he prefers, such as on weekends. He was also sentenced to three years of probation and 300 hours of community service. Mr. Gates had hoped to be spared a prison term in exchange for his extensive cooperation with the government after pleading guilty in February 2018. “I greatly regret the mistakes I have made and I have worked hard to honor my commitment to make amends,” he told Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the Federal District Court in the District of Columbia.

Sentencing guidelines recommended that Mr. Gates, who was a deputy campaign chairman in 2016 and went on to help manage Mr. Trump’s inauguration, serve a prison term of 46 to 57 months. But the guidelines are only advisory.

Prosecutors, who did not oppose Mr. Gates’s request for probation, strongly urged the judge to take into account what they called Mr. Gates’s “extraordinary” efforts to help investigators on a variety of fronts, including with inquiries that remain secret. “He wholeheartedly held up his end of the bargain,” said Molly Gaston, an assistant United States attorney. She described his decision to cooperate just a few months after he was indicted as “a turning point” for the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/us/politics/rick-gates-sentencing.html

[fleur-de-lisa]

1. "extensive cooperation" - just imagine all that he spilled given that he was in the campaign

[Talitha]

2. "...including with inquiries that remain secret."

[DeminPennswoods]

3. Here is hoping Gates learned his lesson and

will lead an exemplary life from here on out.

[not_the_one]

4. this seems reasonable

NO ONE should get off, scott free (whatever the hell that means...).

Meanwhile, THROW THE BOOK AT FLYNN AND STONE!!!

[abqtommy]

6. I agree. From what I've heard, Gates co-operated heavily with investigators. I hope he

stays safe.

[brush]

5. Manafort, this could've been you, and we'd already be rid of trump.

Enjoy spending the rest of life in prison as you're a naive sucker if you think trump is going to pardon you. Once he uses you you're no longer any use for him (see Michael Cohen)

And he'll be lucky to keep his own rotten ass out of prison.

[marble falls]

7. You'd think Mike Flynn might have gotten a clue from this.

[ffr]

8. He'd better hope the guards are watching his cell.

Or else he might wind up hung by morning, like Epstein.

[Miguelito Loveless]

9. Wrist slap

I don't care how helpful he was, he should have gotten at least a year inside a Supermax.

[riversedge]

10. Could have been years.

[LuckyLib]

11. Yet another example of our two-tiered justice system.

Gets to serve his 45 days whenever the mood strikes? Some weekends? Obscene.

[duforsure]

12. This should be a good indication for Rudy and others now

Do you want to end up like manifold, and die in prison, or end up like Rick Gates with a life of freedom.