Former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates gets 45 days in jail
Gates gets light sentence after extensive co-operation with prosecutors
Washington — A federal judge sentenced US President Donald Trump’s former deputy campaign chair Rick Gates to serve an intermittent term of 45 days in jail and 36 months of probation, saying that while she was moved by his extensive co-operation with prosecutors, she still felt some punishment was in order.
US district judge Amy Berman Jackson said she had struggled for some time with how to sentence Gates, who met with investigators more than 50 times and helped the government secure convictions of Republican operatives Paul Manafort and Roger Stone after he pleaded guilty in February 2018 to lying to the FBI and the special counsel’s office and conspiring against the US...
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