which your client s testimony may be deemed relevant by the government. ouch. this is a very thorough agreement to cooperate. testify to a grand jury, testify to trial, show up whenever we need you to. go undercover, give us everything you got and be here every single time we want to talk to you. if he fails to live up to this agreement, whether or not they ever decide to go and bring charges against him just this plea agreement he signed today gives mueller s office tons of leverage over rick gates. just what he s pleading guilty to affords a maximum prison sentence of ten years in federal prison. even under the sentencing guidelines that account for him not having a previous record and all the rest, the filings today make clear that under the sentencing guidelines, these two charges he pled guilty today, yeah, there is a maximum prison term of ten years but realistically, they would be looking to put him in prison for somewhere between 4.5 to six
elsewhere. at which your client s testimony may be deemed relevant by the governmen government. ouch. this is a very thorough agreement to cooperate. testify to a grand jury, testify to trial, show up whenever we need to. go undercover, give us everything you got and be here every single time we want to talk to you. if he fails to live up to this agreement, whether or not they ever decide to go and bring charges against him just this plea agreement he signed today gives mueller s office tons of leverage over rick gates. just what he s pleading guilty to affords a maximum prison sentence. even under the sentencing guidelines that account for him not having a previous record and all the rest, the filings today make clear that under the sentencing guidelines, these two charges he pled guilty today, yeah, there is a maximum prison term of ten years but
years and there is no federal parole. they are saying that s realistic time. that s what he could realistically be looking at serving. now, they don t have to put him in jail for four and a half to six years for these things he pled guilty to. the court could decide to give him nothing or probation. all depending on how well he cooperates with reform. if he does what they want, the court may very well say rick, you re free to go. but if he blows it or if he holds anything back from them or if he lies to them or refuses to testify, refuses to hand something over, boom. done with nothing else filed he would be going to prison right away for let s start with four and a half years. for context here in contrast, the cooperation agreement that mueller did with mike flynn, that puts mike flynn s jail risk at zero to six months. what s hanging over rick gates right now is multiple years starting right away and he s
according to the indictment they are engaged here in a mad scramble to get their hands on cash, a lot of cash. millions of dollars in cash in a very short period of time. in late 2015 and early 2016, right up to the point where manafort and gates joined the trump campaign, they weren t trying to earn new business for their company, at least not that we know of from this indictment. the way they were trying to get money is they were trying to use the assets manafort had. they were trying to use real estate assets that manafort had in the country to try to extract cash from those assets. they were going to bank after bank after bank putting up manafort s various houses and apartments to try to get cash and multi million dollar loans. why do they need all that cash? i don t know. but according to the indictment, they were trying to get lots of loans from lots of different banks simultaneously and according to the indictment,
already signed for it. so this cooperation deal that he signed today, these two charges he plead guilty to, this is put together as a very serious package for trump s deputy campaign manager. and it therefore puts a huge spotlight on what gates could possibly give mueller for his on going investigation and here is the part of it that i think is really important and i will just say so much of this is happening so fast that i m not sure this really important part of it has sunk in yet. but after marinating in these legal filings and reporting today, in my opinion, i think this is the most important piece. in yesterday s indictment of manafort and gates, special counsel s office spelled out in intense detail a two-part scheme by manafort and gates. part one we already knew about from the first time they got indicted back in october. part one was the older stuff from 2006 to 2015 and before the trump presidential campaign.