Rick Gates, former Trump campaign official and Manafort partner, to be sentenced Tuesday
WASHINGTON — Rick Gates, the former deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump and ex-business-partner of Paul Manafort, faces sentencing Tuesday in a federal courtroom in Washington, D.C.
His lawyers tell Federal District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson that his extensive cooperation with federal prosecutors should result in a sentence of probation instead of jail time, and the government does not oppose that idea.
Gates and Manafort were the first former Trump campaign officials to be charged by Robert Mueller's prosecutors, accused of evading taxes and violating federal lobbying laws by concealing millions of dollars they earned representing pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine. Manafort was convicted after a jury trial in Alexandria, Virginia and pleaded guilty to related charges in a separate case in Washington, DC. He is serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence in federal prison.
Instead of fighting the charges as Manafort did, Gates pleaded guilty. He agreed to cooperate with Mueller's team and, after the special counsel's office was disbanded, with the US Attorney's offices in Washington and Alexandria. His lawyers and federal prosecutors say he has done everything asked of him.
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