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| Rick Gates: Former Trump campaign aide set to plead guilty in Mueller investigation | Rick Gates: Former Trump campaign aide set to plead guilty in Mueller investigation |
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| President Donald Trump’s former deputy campaign manager, Rick Gates, is set to plead guilty to charges brought on my Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the Russian investigation. | President Donald Trump’s former deputy campaign manager, Rick Gates, is set to plead guilty to charges brought on my Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the Russian investigation. |
| Mr Gates will plead guilty to charges of conspiracy against the United States and lying to investigators from Mr Mueller's office, according to court records. | Mr Gates will plead guilty to charges of conspiracy against the United States and lying to investigators from Mr Mueller's office, according to court records. |
| Separately last October, Mr Gates and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort were charged in relation to work the pair longtime business associates in Ukraine. The 12 counts included conspiracy against the US, conspiracy to launder money, being an unregistered agent of a foreign principal, seven counts of failure to report foreign bank accounts and transactions, and submitting false Foreign Agent Registration Act forms as well. | Separately last October, Mr Gates and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort were charged in relation to work the pair longtime business associates in Ukraine. The 12 counts included conspiracy against the US, conspiracy to launder money, being an unregistered agent of a foreign principal, seven counts of failure to report foreign bank accounts and transactions, and submitting false Foreign Agent Registration Act forms as well. |
| Both men had pleaded not guilty to those charges at that time. | Both men had pleaded not guilty to those charges at that time. |
| Mr Gates is expected at the federal courthouse in Washington, DC the afternoon of 23 February. | |
| He wrote in a letter to family and friends, first obtained by ABC News, that “despite my initial desire to vigorously defend myself, I have had a change of heart". | |
| “The reality of how long this legal process will likely take, the cost, and the circus-like atmosphere of an anticipated trial are too much. I will better serve my family moving forward by exiting this process," he wrote. | |
| He added that “the consequence is the public humiliation, which at this moment seems like a small price to pay for what our children would have to endure otherwise." | |
| Mr Gates has a young family and the deal he has struck with Mr Mueller earlier this week will likely spare him some jail time. | |
| ABC News reported that a source said it was "gut-wrenching" decision for the former aide who also faced a significant financial burden. | |
| More follows… | More follows… |