An American lobbyist who admitted to paying $50K for a pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch to attend Trump’s inauguration served as a “valuable resource” for government investigators and deserves credit for that help at his upcoming sentencing, prosecutors say
An American lobbyist who has admitted to paying $50,000 for a pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarch to attend President Donald Trump’s inauguration served as a “valuable resource” for government investigators and deserves credit for that help at his upcoming sentencing, federal prosecutors said on Monday.
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. In explaining Patten’s cooperation, prosecutors did confirm he was prepared to testify last fall against his associate Paul Manafort before the former Trump campaign chairman pleaded guilty and avoided a trial in D.C. on charges of money laundering, failing to register as a foreign agent and witness tampering.
“He asks the Court, in fashioning his sentence, to recognize that his crimes were not motivated by greed or a desire to conceal relevant information from the American public or to aid or cover up any potential interference with the 2016 Presidential election,” Patten’s lawyers wrote in their own. “To the contrary, Mr.
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