The following Morgan Chalfant and Lydia Wheeler was posted on the Hill website August 31, 2018:
Sam Patten, a former associate of Paul Manafort, pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to illegally acting as a foreign agent and is now cooperating with the government.
Patten was charged with failing to register as a foreign agent in the United States.
The charges are related to Patten’s work lobbying on behalf of a political party in Ukraine, known as the Opposition Bloc, according to the criminal information document federal prosecutors filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday.