this year. quote, a long time republican operative with ties to the controversial data firm hired by president donald trump s campaign team also has a nearly 2000 decade long friendship and business relationship with a suspected russian intelligence agent con stand tin kilimnik who has landed in mueller s crosshairs. the washington based operative sam patten would not say whether he has been interviewed by mueller s team as part of the investigation into russia s election interference and potential collusion between trump campaign and moscow. but mr. patten says that his relationship with kilimnik, the former officer in gru who worked closely with paul manafort and his deputy rick gates for over a decade, patten said that his relationship with kilimnik has been quote thoroughly explored by relevant government entities. this is how you know you re following a good reporter. dude, you have never heard of before, turns up in one of her profiles as a potentially interesting connection bet
again, he eventually will be sentenced by that same judge who took his plea today. i mentioned that he is the latest cooperating witness and the latest guilty plea in the special counsel s investigation. i should note that this appears to be another one of those cases that started with the special counsel s office but they appear to have handed it off. the prosecutors who actually appeared in court today for this hearing for sam pat ten were prosecutors from the u.s. attorney s office in d.c. and main justice, from the national security division at main justice. reporters say at least one lawyer and multiple fbi agents associated with the special counsel s office were physically there in court today to see sam patten plead get but those fbi exactlies and lawyers from the special counsel s office although they were there, they didn t speak in court and they definitely didn t answer any reporters questions. so they originated in the special counsel s office and handed off to those other
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the trump inauguration. of course, they are not illegally allowed to receive foreign money but patten has testified, has signed his name on court documents which say that s exactly what he did. it s all so freaking shady. the whole trump inauguration. and all the finances around it have been so blatantly shady from the very beginning. if this revelation in the sam patten plea today is a sign of more shoes to drop to do with the trump inauguration, now that prosecutors have named foreign money being illegally funneled into the inaugural committee, honestly, that would be great for us just understanding what s happened with this presidency because from the very beginning, literally from inauguration day, there was a giant slush fund hiding in plain sight. it would be great to know what happened to that giant slush fund. by the way, why are these illegal shenanigans being described in the plea agreement with sam patten today but not actually charged against this
dusted, definitely by tomorrow. well, your honor, since the special counsel s office just today arraigned and accepted a guilty plea and a cooperation agreement from a brand new defendant, i think it is fair to say that mr. giuliani may have been a little off in that prediction about this thing ending by dawn. so again, i don t mean to seem catty about that, but that s amazing that that is who the outside counsel is for the president on a matter this serious. given the special counsel s investigation ending tomorrow, it sort of tells you what kind of position the president is in in terms of his representation. so there s that. more substantively, it is clear this latest cooperating witness has very strong links to the president s campaign chairman and to the ongoing legal travails of paul manafort. the actual charge to which sam