Former Donald Trump campaign deputy Rick Gates is quickly discovering that cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller has its advantages.
The lead Russia investigator asked a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia Tuesday to dismiss a series of criminal charges against Gates, including tax and bank fraud, in exchange for his guilty plea and testimony in the wider probe into the 2016 presidential election.
Gates also secured another win on Tuesday when a different judge granted his request to take his children to Boston next week for their spring break — well outside the 110-mile corridor between his home in Richmond and Washington that he’d previously been confined to for his travels.
The additional leniency comes after Gates agreed to a plea deal last Friday with Mueller that stipulates he must cooperate “in any and all matters” that the special counsel’s office decides are “relevant.”
Well this is certainly not something you get for nothing, so Gates must be singing a very entertaining tune for Mueller and his investigators.
And THAT does not bode well for Paul Manafort, who so far has stubbornly refused to cooperate.
But how long can he really hold out at this point?
All I know is that if I were Donald Trump I would be tossing and turning at night.
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