that they know he committed these crimes simply because of the rules of the court, not becauses it s some strategic thing in s terms of them tryingo tell the public they re aware these crimes were committed. right. it s not public facing. it s actually an internal doj practice to fully disclose everything of that nature that you have included in their plea decision. if you were doing it after indictment, you might have a three-count indictment and you would go to the court and say, we ll permit mr. patton to plead just to count one and ask the court to dismiscous counts two three. but notco necessarily here. he pled guilty. he waived his right to a trial. got it. okay. exactly. here s my next one. among those items that prosecutors describe but they didn t charge him is when pros caug prosecutors say he lied to the senate committee. the heads of that committee came out today after mr. patton appeared in court and said in
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 blatant 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 committee, that would be great for us just to understand what has 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 doctor. reporter: these illegal shenanigans being described in the plea agreement but not actually charged against this guy? why did prosecutors spell it all out as a crime but then not
caused them on notify the justice department that he should be subject to a criminal referral. that s also new news. we didn t know that before today. but did that criminal referral from burr and warner, did that lead to this action today against sam patten? it kind of doesn t seem like it. look at the actual language from the statement they put out today. this is what them. quote, we can confirm that mr. patten produced documents to the committee and was interviewed by committee staff. due to concerns about certain statements made by mr. patten, the committee made a criminal referral to the department of justice. while the charge and resultant plea today do not appear to directly involve our referral, we appreciate their referral of this matter. so this is fuzzy in an interesting way. sam patten testifies to the senate intelligence committee. something about that causes them on refer to the justice
cooperating on may 22nd. that also tells us that hey, the mueller investigation had an active cooperating witness working with them for more than the past three months and none of us had any idea about it. mueller side of this doesn t leak. if you were hoping to get juicy leaks out of the special counsel s office, nobody is getting it. otherwise we would have mattered sam patten was a cooperator and due to be charged someday. the prosecutors say that sam patten lied to and obstructed the senate intelligence committee. and the senate investigation of the scandal. we hadn t even knew that he teld testify. senators put out a statement that he did speak to the committee. there was something about the testimony to the committee
fact they couldn confirm that patton did talk to the senate about their senate committee about their investigation. and they said they did send a criminal referral on this guy to the justice department after he testified. my question is that: it doesn t seem like people get prosecuted very often for lying to congress. ifyi prosecutors want to bring thatse kind of a charge, do the need to get a criminal referral from thein senate, from whateve committee, from the congress in order to do it? or is that something that prosecutors could pursue on their own whether or not congress wanted them to. te the typical practice is fo the body that wants to make that referral to let doj know about it because in really doj doesn t have an independent mechanism for assessing what s going on in all of these hearings up on the hill. perjury charges are very hard to make for prosecutors. so they re scrutinized very carefully.er they re important cases to bring when the evidence is good, but they are d