Tag: Sam Patten

‘Yet Another Win for Bob Mueller’: Former Prosecutor Says the New Guilty Plea Shows the Russia Probe Is Not Slowing Down

The following article by Matthew Chapman was posted on the AlterNet website August 31, 2018:

After another week of Russia revelations, Guy Lewis has bad news for Trump: it is not going to stop soon.

On Friday, Sam Patten, a former associate of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chair Paul Manafort, was charged by federal prosecutors in the District of Columbia with failing to register as a foreign agent working on behalf of Ukrainian politicians, and pleaded guilty to illegally diverting foreign funds into Trump’s inauguration and lying to Congress. He has now reportedly secured a cooperation agreement with prosecutors.

While the charges were not directly brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who recently secured an eight-count conviction against Manafort himself, the case against Patten originated with a referral from Mueller’s team.

And according to former U.S. Attorney Guy Lewis, who worked with Mueller at the Justice Department, it is a sign that Mueller’s broad-based investigation is not going anywhere.

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Manafort associate pleads guilty to illegal lobbying

The following Morgan Chalfant and Lydia Wheeler was posted on the Hill website August 31, 2018:

Courtroom sketch of Paul Manafort listening to U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III at federal court in Alexandria. Credit: Dana Verkouteren, AP

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.

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