A lawyer who worked with Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and campaign adviser Richard Gates in Ukraine has been sentenced to 30 days in prison. He was also fined $20,000 and given two months of supervised release.
This is the first sentence to be imposed by special counsel Robert Mueller since he started his investigation.
Alex van der Zwaan worked with Gates and Manafort long before the 2016 campaign, when Manafort and Gates were working as lobbyists for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine. The work of van der Zwaan’s law firm was legally required to be separate from the lobbying …read more
Source: The Blaze
