Dutch lawyer Alex van der Zwaan on Tuesday became the first person to be sentenced as part of Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation.
Van der Zwaan, whose father-in-law is Russian oligarch German Kahn, was sentenced to 30 days in prison and fined $20,000 for lying to federal investigators about his relationship with officials in Donald Trump’s campaign, Fox News reports. He pleaded guilty in February to lying to investigators about his work in Ukraine with former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced the 33-year-old lawyer in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C.
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Source: The Washington Free Beacon
