principal without the attorney general? i did, your honor. the judge, and now there is a written statement of the offense which i take it you and your lawyer have gone over carefully? yes, your honor. the judge, are you the one who signed it on the last page where it says defendant s acceptance indicating it was true? the defendant, yes, your honor. the judge, do you understand if i accept your guilty plea in this case, could you receive a maximum sentence of up to five years incarceration for that offense? the defendant i do, your honor. the judge, do you understand in this case as part of your plea agreement, there is a paragraph that requires to you cooperate fully and truthfully in this case? the defendant, sam patten, yes yes or no. the judge. # do you understand the government has agreed to bring the nature and extent of your cooperation to my attention at the time of your sentencing? the defendant, that is my understanding, your honor. and then here s sort of the moment everyb
was, you know, an american element to the russian interference in our election. what do you know about patten s role at cambridge analytica, with the parent firm of cambridge analytica. that s something we know from your reporting but we didn t see anything about it explicitly in the charging documents today. right. there are two things are really interesting about the parent company of cambridge analytica. in 2014 he started working in oregon for the parent company scl and he was focusing on micro targeting which we know is a big part of trump campaign s data operation in 2016. so he was working on that. and then he ended up working for cambridge analytica again in a campaign in a project they did for the incumbent in nigeria. and what they can there was also very interesting.
case. so there s lots and lots of ties between had guy s new case today and manafort s case which is still ongoing. still ongoing. he has another second trial coming up in a another couple weeks. but on that specific claim by prosecutors about the trump inauguration, that is fascinating for a bunch of reasons. for one, bluntly, this is the first time prosecutors have directly alleged that foreign money was funneled into any trump campaign entity. also the mechanism by which it was done is interesting. according to the statement of offense in the sam patten case, sam patten convinced some american, to write a check that was a $50,000 check that was supposed to look like an american $50,000 donation to the trump inauguration. that $50,000 donation obtained four tickets on trump inaugural events. that american person, whoever it was, that person who wrote the check in their own name, that
involved in the special counsel s investigation. before today, this guy who just pled guilty in federal court, he was not on any of these lists. nobody knew he was coming. his name is sam patten, a republican activist and political consultant. he was arraigned and pled guilty before the same judge who is hearing the paul manafort trial next month. the hearing took less than an hour and it was a very formal hearing. the prosecutors were asked by the judge in open court to explain the felony to which sam patten would plead guilty is that the prosecutors did explain it at some length. they commit legalese. they just read the document they had fwild the court. a very formal proceeding. but still, the defendant was
russia and vladimir putin? sam patten worked at cambridge analytica in 2014, 2014. he pled guilty today. today after appeared in court for his arraignment and to plead guilty, christopher wylie, that whistle blower. breaking. sam patten just charged by fbi after mueller referral. this guy was responsible for cambridge analytica in the pus involved testing putin attitudes. i know there s more to come. so bottom line. thank you for watching the news on friday night before a holiday weekend. it is so worth it, right? special counsel has a new cumming witness and a new guilty plea. also, special counsel s investigation is apparently not ending tomorrow. sorry. also, this case appears to be linked to the manafort case for