Seth Abramson on Pappadopoulos sentence.

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Link to tweet

[marylandblue]

1. If Coffee Boy gave useful information

Why did the government make it sound like he was not cooperating?

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5. So why this?

Link to tweet

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6. That's my question.

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7. Perhas they don't want to advertise it.

[OnDoutside]

11. It was stated in the sentencing recommendation (from Mueller), that they were pursuing a harsher

sentence because Papadopulous's lies early on, resulting in Professor Mifsud escaping capture, when he was in the US at the same time as Papadopulous was being interviewed. Mueller was pissed with him over that.

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17. Makes sense now.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Okay,Coffee Boy

will now be on the No fly list,Can not Vote,Pas Ports gone. Job prospects,manual Labor at minimum wage. One screw up in Probation and then back to the can for the five year stint.

He is so screwed.

[former9thward]

9. What?

None of that is true. What world are you in? Do you really think he can't fly or have a passport? Of course he can. He can get his voting rights restores upon completion of his 14 days by petition to the court. I don't know what work he has been doing but this conviction won't affect it.

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10. I he pled to a felony,he goes on the No Fly List,

and if he wants to fly he needs permission. Yes he can petition,had a family member go down this road,it gets F---n ugly.

[OnDoutside]

12. I presume that is until he completes his 14 days + 1 yr Probation + 200 hrs Community Service ?

[former9thward]

13. Felons are NOT on the"no fly" lists .

The no fly list is a list of names of people who have terror links. Period.

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14. What ever you say,

can not agree with you statement about no fly. If you name match's a name on the list,get ready to have you life f-ed big time. How do I know,well got a family that has been dealing with this issue for several years. His Corporate Boss has to clear him with the TSA each and ever time he needs to fly to any city for a sales call. And there more crap he has to go through beside this,all because his name matches a name on the TSA no fly.

[NBachers]

3. He's not the only one in the family who was being pissy.

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[Trust Buster]

4. Sorry, this slap on the wrist should leave Mueller with a red face.

[C-SPAN4me]

8. Why red in the face?

Out of embarrassment that he "only" got coffee boy to plea guilty to lying to the FBI? Or out of frustration that the JUDGE ultimately decides how long the sentence will be?

There are such things a sentencing guidelines, to which Mueller's team adhered. The recommendation was the maximum under guideline; 6 months. It's not like they can recommend 15 to life when the guidelines are less than a year. That would be ludicrous, and if the judge actually took the recommendation, an extreme abuse of power

I don't know why the judge decided 14 days. Maybe he thought 2 weeks in the pen for a momma's boy policy wonk would SEEM like 6 months.

In any event, coffee boy is a teeny tiny gear in a much bigger machine being systematically taken apart piece by piece by Mueller's team, SDNY, the FBI, the NY AG, the Manhattan DA, and more. No need for red faces anywhere.

[Mr. Ected]

15. Alex van der Zwaan did not cooperate and was given a sentence of 30 days

Don't know if Pappa D. had very much to spill, if his reduced sentence was only half of what a non-cooperating witness got. Perhaps he corroborated points that other witnesses had already admitted or testified to. Mifsud would have been invaluable to this investigation; it's unfortunate that this little fascist allowed him to get away...and likely get killed.

[AwakeAtLast]

16. My 80 y/o Trump voting father picked up on that.

We even had a civil discussion about it. The may be some hope!

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18. knr