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READ: Plea Agreement For Newly Convicted GOP Operative

08.31.18 | 1:34 pm

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.

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Caitlin Mac Neal is TPM's special projects editor, based in Washington, D.C. She first came to TPM as a newswriter, and has written for HuffPost, the Sunlight Foundation and Slate.

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leftcoaster says:

August 31, 2018

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
socalista says:

August 31, 2018

leftcoaster:

He agreed to fully cooperate with the Special Counsel office.

…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.
tiowally says:

August 31, 2018

socalista:

pardoning 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.
socalista says:

August 31, 2018

Into your shell-like ear I whisper these words: “Caspar Weinberger”.
paulw says:

August 31, 2018

So it sounds as if this was merely a guy they came across while investigating Manafort. “matters arising” indeed.