The D.C. lobbyist who pleaded guilty in August in a prosecution linked to special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s Russia probe will have the details of his case remain under wraps, after prosecutors added yet another mystery filing to the docket.
D.C. federal prosecutors filed a joint status report in Patten’s case under seal Monday, after doing the same in a surprise New Year’s Eve move.
Patten pleaded guilty to failing to file as a foreign lobbyist in August, admitting in his plea that he took $50,000 from a Ukrainian oligarch and siphoned it into the Trump inaugural committee through a straw donor in …read more
Source: TPM
