Sam Patten, a lobbyist who admitted to using $50,000 from a pro-Russia Ukrainian politician to get the Ukrainian tickets to President Trump's inauguration, was sentenced to three years probation on Friday.
Patten was investigated as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe based on his extensive work with Konstantin Kilimnik, the aide to Paul Manafort charged by Mueller. In August, Patten pleaded guilty to working as an unregistered foreign agent, saying he bought the Trump tickets with the Ukrainian's money even though presidential inaugural committees can't accept foreign donations. Yet he also agreed to cooperate with Mueller — something U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson cited when giving Patten a lighter sentence Friday.
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