Rick gates in the ukraine, he failed to tell federal investigators about rick gates apparently having contact with a russian intelligence agent. This is something that we learned just last week as federal investigators were getting ready for this sentencing. Hes facing zero to six months in prison. We expect that hes probably going to end up getting closer to no time in prison. Hes expected to his wife is expecting to have a baby in august. So thats one reason why we expect that perhaps he wont serve any jail time, despite the fact hes admitted to lying to the fbi. Hes also facing a 250,000 fine as a result of this case. We know that obviously this is part of the special counsel investigation and this is a really big connection here between van der zwaan and Paul Manafort and rick gates in the fact that Robert Mueller is investigating collusion between the russians and the Trump Campaign. This is part of what the special counsel has been trying to put together in this case. And van der
An active collusion investigation relating to Paul Manafort, but it also shows the scope as relates to Paul Manafort did go beyond russia. Here is what the memo says . First it says the special counsel is authorized to investigate allegations that manafort committed a crime or crimes by colluding with russians. Then it also says, and this is outside of the russia scope, perhaps, that mueller is authorized to investigate manafort for money he received while working for the prorussian head of the ukraine. As we know now, manafort has been charged with the money he made from that work. His attorneys are arguing that mueller has overstepped his jurisdiction by bringing those charges because it has nothing to do with the russia investigation. Clearly what this memo shows is that the special counsel was authorized to go ahead and investigate manafort for those issues. We have that part of it. The memo itself is heavily redacted, correct . It certainly is heavy, heavily redacted. We only see