Special counsel Robert Mueller has recommended that former Trump campaign staffer George Papadopoulos be sentenced to zero to six months in prison and face a fine of $9,500.
Mueller stated in a court filing Friday that those penalties “are warranted and appropriate” for Papadopoulos’s conduct in lying to federal investigators.
“The defendant knew the questions he was asked by the FBI were important, and he knew his answers were false at the time he gave them. His lies negatively affected the FBI’s Russia investigation, and prevented the FBI from effectively identifying and confronting witnesses in a timely fashion,” the court document states.
The former Trump campaign employee reached a plea agreement with Mueller’s team last year. He is set to be sentenced in September.
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#BREAKING: Mueller recommends Papadopoulos be sentenced up to 6 months in prisonhttps://t.co/HoTTOnqbpy pic.twitter.com/Dv57NyHLUl
— The Hill (@thehill) August 18, 2018
“The defendant’s lies undermined investigators’ ability to challenge the Professor or potentially detain or arrest him while he was still in the United States.” This is the professor who promised Papadopoulos dirt on Clinton. Mueller team asking Papadopoulos get six months pic.twitter.com/erQWSGvySy
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) August 18, 2018
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