Posted on 05/23/2018 4:32:14 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has told a court he is ready to move ahead with the sentencing of former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos.
“The parties respectfully request that the Court refer this case for the preparation of a pre-sentence investigation report,” the filing from Mueller's team reads.
A pre-sentence report is used to help a judge prepare for a possible sentence, providing information on the individual's criminal history, cooperation with authorities, as well as other details that will aid the judge's decision.
The latest development suggests Mueller's team is looking to kickstart the sentencing process.
Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI last year and has cooperated with Mueller's team, according to court filings cited by ABC News.
He has also been free on bond since pleading guilty.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
A bigger fish would be someone like Trump, Sessions or Manafort.
Or maybe Mueller wants to close this case before lawyers in the other cases start getting traction with judges in arguing that Mueller's legal authority as Special Counsel is defective.
So, Mr. Corrupt Persecutor of the corrupt DOJ, when is the FBI going to be sentenced for lying to us?
I think this sounds bad for Popadopoulis. Mueller wants to nail up his skimpy scalp.
Pop wouldn’t be in this position if he hadn’t puffed up his resume.
He needs a pardon.
“Mueller moves ahead with Papadopoulos sentencing”
Oh aren’t you Mr.tough guy Mueller. The guy gets off on destroying nobodies. What a punk.
This makes me angry.
I have no love for Papadopoulos, he seems like a lightweight who got in over his head because the Trump campaign couldn’t find any other foreign policy “experts” because they had all been snapped up by the other campaigns, and Trump was considered to be a very dark horse with no chance, so the they get Papadopoulos and Page.
So I don’t really know or care much about him.
But this makes me steaming mad when you look at the outright lying and obfuscation by upper level people on the side who has perpetrated this fraud, and Mueller isn’t asking them any questions.
We are at war. That much is clear. And I do feel these people are going to go down. I just hate waiting for it.
Mueller is going to be burned alive at the stake.
Why all the hand wringing?
“Pop wouldn’t be in this position if he hadn’t puffed up his resume.”
Wrong. Pop wouldn’t be in this position if he hadn’t been fed a load of BS by one of the FBI spies and then had it dug out of him by the slimeball Aussie ambassador so that he could then report it to CNN and the circle would be complete. This is a process crime which is the only thing that mueller and his coterie of shiitehead dhimmicrat legal beagles are good at prosecuting.
another guy going to jail for jaywalking, while the real criminals— Clinton, Obama, Comey, and all the rest remain free.
Thank you sessions, you worthless, retarded, little mouse, POS.
He could use the approved James Comey excuse for Hillary that she didn’t “intend” to break the law. That makes everything okay.
Time for Papa to challenge Mueller’s constitutional authority, per Levin.
I expect Trump will pardon all those convicted of Witch Hunt process crimes. Manafort and Cohen are SOL, IMO, since their criminality is not SC related.
Anyone know what he lied about?
We are both right. He was entrapped, and that is the real crime here.
But also, the reason he was targeted for entrapment is that he was named as a foreign policy person, and that happened at least in part because he exaggerated his prior experience.
Poor Ol Popatopaulus, I hear he tells some great drinking stories.
In his interview with the FBI, Papadop said that he met both Mifsud and a certain Russian young lady before Papadop joined the Trump campaign, and that Mifsud was nothing more than a nobody talking crap.
FBI determined that he met them after he joined the campaign, and that Mifsud was not a nobody.
That one makes me insane. “Intent” is *not* an element of the statute Hillary violated. It’s unique in that sense because most crimes do require the requisite *mens rea*, or mental state. But, this particular law does not.
If you look to legislative intent, which judges often do when interpreting a statute, the only reasonable conclusion is that the legislature considered the mishandling of classified documents to be so egregious that it justifies severe punishment whether intentional or just grossly negligent.
‘Time for Papa to challenge Mueller’s constitutional authority’
That takes money. Mueller’s MO is to bankrupt people. Shame on Sessions for enabling this ongoing injustice.
What if anything is the word on Comey getting immunity from Muller?
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