Federal prosecutors and Rick Gates on Thursday took a step toward beginning the sentencing process for the former Trump campaign advisor, who made a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller in February 2018.
In a joint court filing Thursday evening signed by D.C. U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu, whose office has taken over Gates’s case since the end of the Mueller probe, they asked the court to start the probation office’s drafting of his pre-sentencing report.
The filing noted that Gates is still expected to testify in the trial of Roger Stone, slated to begin in November; in the trial this month …read more
Source: TPM
