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Preet Bharara
@PreetBharara
Special Counsel Mueller appears to have a cooperating witness, George Papadopoulos. That is significant. Time will tell how significant.
7:37 AM · Oct 30, 2017
Direct relationship to the Trump campaign. Lied after the inauguration.
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One of President Trump's former campaign advisers has pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents investigating allegations of collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Monday .
George Papadopolous, the 30-year-old foreign policy adviser, pleaded guilty earlier this month, according to court filings unsealed on Monday. The DOJ unsealed the documents shortly after it announced charges against two other higher-ranking, Trump campaign officials — Paul Manafort and Rick Gates.
Prosecutors charged Papadopolous with lying to investigators about his conversations with a foreign professor who told him that Russians had thousands of emails containing "dirt" on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
He also allegedly lied about his contact with a Russian woman who the Justice Department says he pressured "in an effort to arrange a meeting between the campaign and Russian government officials."
The Trump aide allegedly told the FBI that those conversations happened before he joined the campaign, statements rebutted by the Justice Department's timeline.
The revelation is the clearest yet tying the Trump campaign to Russia's effort to interfere in the 2016 election. The charges stemmed from Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...o-lying-to-fbi
Verrry interesting...
