patten pled guilty was that he was operating as an unregistered foreign agent. to be more spec than that, prosecutors today charged him with being an unregistered foreign agent lobbying for and representing the interests of the same pro-rush yar ukrainian political party that paul manafort has been charged with being a foreign agent for his trial that s due to start in a couple of weeks. sam patten today and paul manafort in a couple weeks, they re both charged with being unregistered foreign agents for something called the opposition bloc which is what forms in ukraine after manafort s pro-russian victory yanukovych was chased back in a popular uprising. they remade the party. so that s one link to the manafort case. both sam patten and paul manafort are charged with the same crime and they re charged with committing the same crime on behalf of the same foreign entity.