Manafort Ally Admits to Helping Foreigners Donate to Trump's Inaugural Committee

[RandySF]

A former Paul Manafort associate who pleaded guilty to a lobbying crime admitted that he helped foreign donors give money to President Donald Trump’s Inaugural Committee.

In a plea agreement made public Friday, prosecutors outlined other crimes that the lobbyist, Sam Patten, admitted to but wouldn’t be charged with. Among them was “causing foreign money” to be paid to the Trump inaugural committee. Patten signed off on the allegation.

Patten pleaded guilty earlier Friday to failing to disclose his lobbying on behalf of Ukraine, and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.



https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-08-31/patten-caused-foreign-money-to-be-paid-to-inaugural-committee

[Zoonart]

1. My my... I do believe that is a crime.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. WaPo article - with add'l info

Washington consultant for Ukraine party pleads guilty to violating lobbyist disclosure law

By Spencer S. Hsu and
Rosalind S. Helderman
August 31 at 2:02 PM

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In a plea agreement read aloud by the judge, Patten agreed to cooperate in exchange for a government recommendation of leniency at sentencing. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, but both sides agreed there is no recommended sentence under federal guidelines.

Patten stood with his attorney, Stuart A. Sears, and after surrendering his passport and was released on his own recognizance pending sentencing.

Federal prosecutors previously have indicted Kilimnik and Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, on charges of witness tampering in Manafort’s criminal conspiracy and money-laundering case pending in the District. Manafort was also convicted this month on bank- and tax-fraud charges in Virginia.

Prosecutors with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s office have said Kilimnik has been assessed by U.S. investigators to have links to Russian intelligence. He and Manafort are charged with repeatedly contacting two members of a public-relations firm and asking them to falsely testify about what prosecutors say was secret lobbying they did at Manafort’s behest.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/washington-consultant-for-ukraine-party-set-to-plead-guilty-to-violating-lobbyist-disclosure-law/2018/08/31/172cf2c8-ad23-11e8-a8d7-0f63ab8b1370_story.html?utm_term=.5e77b5bfa4aa

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3. ...and where did all of that money go, by the way.

It certainly wasn't spent on that pathetic inaugural.

[Leghorn21]

4. And who was the Inauguration Chair? Tom Barrack! And who was Barrack's #1 deputy/go-to

guy? Rick Gates!!

(Also, this lonnnng article says Barrack was also responsible for hooking Manafort up w/Red Don
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/10/31/what-did-thomas-barrack-know-and-when-did-he-know-it/)


Dis gettin gud

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5. There was a freakin' email campaign

Trump was courting illegal foreign 'contributions' all through the campaign.