After GOP operative Samuel Patten pleaded guilty on Friday to failing to register as a foreign lobbyist for work for Ukrainian clients, prosecutors released Patten’s plea agreement.
Read the new filings below:
READ: Plea Agreement For Newly Convicted GOP Operative
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August 31, 2018 1:34 p.m.
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Shot across the bow to Manafort and others? He agreed to fully cooperate with the Special Counsel office.
ETA: https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/1035583191225122817
…and other law enforcement agencies, and all grand juries. IOW, getting rid of Mueller won’t keep Patten from testifying against Spanky. Nor would pardoning Manafort silence Patten. I’d say this is aimed at Spanky, not Manafort.
IIRC part and parcel of a Presidential pardon is that they — pardon me, pardners, would it be called the “pardonee”? — must cooperate with all further investigations and answer all questions truthfully under penalty of perjury.
Into your shell-like ear I whisper these words: “Caspar Weinberger”.
So it sounds as if this was merely a guy they came across while investigating Manafort. “matters arising” indeed.