08-31-2018, 06:17 PM
Another Guilty Plea
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^ Samuel Patten entered his plea in federal court in Washington, shortly after prosecutors released a four-page charging document that accused him of performing lobbying and consulting work in the United States and Ukraine but failing to register as a foreign agent as required by the Justice Department.
Patten told Judge Amy Berman Jackson that he suffers from mental illness and is under the care of a psychiatrist and is taking medication. Jackson asked whether he is suffering from depression and anxiety, and he quickly responded, "Correct, your honor." She ordered him to continue seeing his psychiatrist and to avoid alcohol.
Prosecutors said Patten formed a company with the Russian national and it received $1,000,000 for its work advising Ukraine's Opposition Bloc party, including a prominent Ukraine oligarch. Prosecutors said this violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Patten is also accused of facilitating a $50,000 illegal foreign donation to the Trump inauguration fund using a U.S. citizen as a straw donor.
Patten was a business associate of Konstantin Kilimnik, a man U.S. authorities have said has ties to Russian intelligence and is a co-defendant in a pending case against Paul Manafort in Washington, brought by special counsel Robert Mueller's team, that accuses them both of witness tampering.
The Patten case was brought by the U.S. attorney's office in Washington and the Department of Justice's National Security Division, and not by special counsel Robert Mueller, whose team has been investigating potential coordination between Moscow and the Trump campaign.
Refs and legal docs:
https://www.lawfareblog.com/document-w-s...eign-power
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/w-samuel-pa...ign-agent/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...agent.html
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^ Samuel Patten entered his plea in federal court in Washington, shortly after prosecutors released a four-page charging document that accused him of performing lobbying and consulting work in the United States and Ukraine but failing to register as a foreign agent as required by the Justice Department.
Patten told Judge Amy Berman Jackson that he suffers from mental illness and is under the care of a psychiatrist and is taking medication. Jackson asked whether he is suffering from depression and anxiety, and he quickly responded, "Correct, your honor." She ordered him to continue seeing his psychiatrist and to avoid alcohol.
Prosecutors said Patten formed a company with the Russian national and it received $1,000,000 for its work advising Ukraine's Opposition Bloc party, including a prominent Ukraine oligarch. Prosecutors said this violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Patten is also accused of facilitating a $50,000 illegal foreign donation to the Trump inauguration fund using a U.S. citizen as a straw donor.
Patten was a business associate of Konstantin Kilimnik, a man U.S. authorities have said has ties to Russian intelligence and is a co-defendant in a pending case against Paul Manafort in Washington, brought by special counsel Robert Mueller's team, that accuses them both of witness tampering.
The Patten case was brought by the U.S. attorney's office in Washington and the Department of Justice's National Security Division, and not by special counsel Robert Mueller, whose team has been investigating potential coordination between Moscow and the Trump campaign.
Refs and legal docs:
https://www.lawfareblog.com/document-w-s...eign-power
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/w-samuel-pa...ign-agent/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...agent.html
(Note: I edited this thread title to more accurately reflect thread progress and content.)