Former Trump
campaign adviser Rick Gates pleaded guilty Friday to two criminal charges stemming from the special counsel's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, and agreed to...
Washington (CNN) The lawyers for former Trump
campaign adviser Rick Gates showed a hint as to why they'd like to quit his case Wednesday: They don't agree with Gates.
Not exact matches
Rick Gates, the former Trump
campaign adviser, is expected to plead guilty on Friday in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling, according to a letter obtained by ABC News.
Mueller's team announced charges in October against three other Trump
campaign officials, former chairman Paul Manafort and his business associate
Rick Gates, and a former
campaign foreign policy
adviser, George Papadopoulos.
Mueller's office has obtained a wealth of subpoenaed documents about the president's conduct and has taken secret testimony from cooperating witnesses — Michael Flynn, former foreign policy
adviser George Papadopoulos and former
campaign aide
Rick Gates — any one of whom would be in a position to contradict Trump and expose him to perjury charges.
Several of Trump's former aides have pleaded guilty in Mueller's inquiry, including
Rick Gates, a former
campaign adviser, and Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security
adviser.
Rick Gates, Manafort's longtime associate as well as a
campaign adviser, was also charged, turned himself in and pleaded not guilty.
Ms. Farley is currently laying the groundwork to run against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand this year, and has begun assembling a
campaign team, including John Brabender, a former
adviser to the presidential candidate
Rick Santorum, and the pollster John McLaughlin.
On the US side, indictments have been issued against Paul Manafort, a former Trump
campaign chairman;
Rick Gates, a former business associate of Mr Manafort and
campaign adviser; George Papadopoulos, a former Trump
campaign adviser, and Michael Flynn, Mr Trump's former national security
adviser.