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Re: U.S President: Donald Trump
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...KBN1CZ1RJ?il=0
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - George Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents, the federal special counsel said on Monday, becoming the third adviser to President Donald Trump’s campaign to face criminal charges in its investigation.
Papadopolous is an international energy lawyer who was on Trump’s advisory team during the 2016 presidential campaign. The Chicago man pleaded guilty on Oct. 5 in a case unsealed on Monday, the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller said in a statement.
The court document said Papadopolous made false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation shortly after Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, when the law enforcement agency had an open investigation into Russian government efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.
The special counsel said Papadopoulos told FBI agents he had been in contact with an unnamed foreign “professor” who claimed to have “dirt” on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails,” and that Papadopolous claimed such contacts occurred before he joined Trump’s campaign.
However, the prosecutor said Papadopolous in fact did not meet the professor until after he joined Trump’s campaign.
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He was arrested in July, pled guilty early October, but it was sealed until today...
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/30/ex-t...bi-agents.html
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The U.S. alleges that George Papadopoulos made contact with foreign nationals tied to the Russian government and subsequently lied to federal agents about those meetings.
Papadopoulos was arrested on July 27 and entered a plea deal on Oct. 5.
According to the documents, Papadopoulos met with a female Russian national in March 2016. This woman was allegedly introduced to Papadopoulos, then foreign policy advisor for the Trump campaign, as a relative of Russian President Vladimir Putin with ties to senior Kremlin officials.
The filings also say that Papadopoulos is cooperating with the U.S. government in its ongoing investigation of Russian attempts to interfere in the 2016 election.
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The actual court document - https://assets.documentcloud.org/doc...nt-Offense.pdf
Last paragraph
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Following his arrest, defendant PAPADOPOULOS met with the Government on numerous occasions to provide information and answer questions.
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Last edited by Hugh; 30-10-2017 at 15:43.
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