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

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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