Trump Campaign Aide Gates Gets Jail Time in Mueller Case

Gates was star witness against Paul Manafort, Roger Stone
He pleaded guilty to conspiracy and cooperated with U.S.

Rick Gates exits the U.S. Courthouse in Washington in 2017.Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

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By Andrew M Harris

December 17, 2019 at 4:51 PM UTC

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December 17, 2019 at 9:08 PM UTC

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A former top Trump campaign aide who became a star witness for Special Counsel Robert Mueller must serve 45 days behind bars for his crimes despite prosecutors’ request that he be spared jail time.

Rick Gates’s testimony helped convict Trump confidant Roger Stone and send former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to prison. At Gates’s sentencing on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington praised his work for the government but imposed a brief term for his tax and lobbying crimes with Manafort. Gates must serve his time intermittently during a three-year term of probation.