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Business Insider: Early Trump campaign adviser pleaded guilty to making false statements about Russia contacts to FBI
An early foreign policy adviser and aide to President Donald Trump's campaign team, George Papadopoulos, secretly pleaded guilty earlier this month to making false statements to the FBI about the nature and extent of his contacts with foreign nationals who he knew had ties to senior Russian government officials.
Papadopoulos, 30, was a foreign policy adviser to Trump's campaign in early 2016. He sent at least six emails to top Trump advisers during the campaign offering to set up meetings with Russian officials, the Washington Post reported in August. The first of those emails was sent in March 2016 with the subject line " Meeting with Russian Leadership - Including Putin."
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Update #1: Former Trump aide George Papadopoulos pleads guilty in Mueller probe -- Chicago Tribune/AP
Update #2: Early Trump campaign adviser pleaded guilty to making false statements about Russia contacts to FBI (Business Insider).
Update #3: Former Trump Foreign Policy Adviser Pleaded Guilty in Mueller Probe (Bloomberg)
WNU Editor: If what I am reading is true, I have one word to describe former Trump campaign foreign-policy adviser (and a very minor one at that) George Papadopoulos ..... dumb. It is obvious that no one in the senior levels of the Trump campaign believed he had any serious ties with Russia .... and they ignored him .... but his lying on the dates and who he knew in Russia to the FBI was (and is) beyond stupid. You do not lie to the FBI .... especially on something where telling the truth would not have caused him any problems. But it looks his ego (or God knows what else) got in his way of telling the truth, and now according to his plea deal, he is going to serve 6 months in jail and pay a few thousand dollars in a fine. On a positive note .... this case is now my poster-child on how not to behave when you meet the FBI when they call you in for questioning. The statement of the offense is below .... and if you have the time .... it is well worth the read:
Statement of the Offense.filed by natasha bertrand on Scribd
