A busy week brought the first jail sentence to emerge from the Trump-Russia probe. Dutch lawyer Alex van der Zwaan was ordered to spend 30 days in jail and pay $20,000 for lying to Special Counsel Robert Mueller about conversations he had with Rick Gates, a relatively stiff sentence given that prosecutors weren’t specifically recommending prison time.

We learned that the President is currently a “subject” but not a criminal “target” in the investigation — an assessment that could easily change. Significantly, Mueller told Trump’s legal team that he is preparing a report on the President’s actions in office and possible obstruction of justice.

The probe into Paul Manafort appears quite active months after his indictments in two federal courts. Prosecutors revealed that they issued subpoenas this spring to obtain phone records linked to Manafort and related to “ongoing investigations.” Their list of warrants shows they seized bank accounts from three different financial institutions.

Mueller’s team also disclosed that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein explicitly authorized them to investigate whether Manafort colluded with Russian government officials while working with Ukrainian politicians. Notably, the Rosenstein memo included a redacted list of other individuals and matters Mueller is specifically tasked with examining. This memo undercut Manafort’s claim that Mueller had overstepped in prosecuting him. Separately, The Guardian surfaced details about Manafort’s work in the U.S. on behalf of Ukraine’s Russia-aligned former president, Victor Yanukovich, including a “black ops” PR campaign between 2011 and 2013 denigrating Yanukovich’s opponents.

Mueller’s investigators reportedly questioned an unnamed Trump Organization associate involved in overseas deals, showing up at his home with subpoenas for electronic records and sworn testimony. Many of their questions focused on Michael Cohen. Former Trump business partner Felix Sater, meanwhile, was interviewed by the Senate Intelligence Committee.

CNN reported Mueller’s investigators have detained and searched Russian oligarchs as they transited through the US, questioning them and scanning their electronic devices. These all signal active examination of potential collusion or illicit financing of Trump’s 2016 campaign.

Separately, the New York Times reported that George Nader, a UAE royal family adviser who arranged a meeting between Eric Prince and a Putin-linked Russian financier, has longstanding ties to Russia and Putin’s inner circle.

We learned this week that, on the same day in August 2016 that Roger Stone told InfoWars that “devastating” disclosures about the Clinton Foundation were forthcoming, he emailed former campaign advisor Sam Nunberg saying he’d dined with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Stone told TPM that the email was a joke, but the special counsel is probing the exchange.

At the end of the week, the U.S. slapped sanctions on seven Russian oligarchs and 17 Russian government officials, including banker Alexander Torshin, who the FBI is reportedly investigating for illegally funneling funds to the NRA to help Trump.

In a speech, outgoing national security adviser H.R. McMaster said the U.S. had “failed to impose sufficient costs” on Russia. Trump, meanwhile, claimed that “nobody’s been tougher on Russia” than him.

Nobody’s Been Tougher on Russia