Rick Gates, President Trump's former campaign aide, has just been sentenced to 45 days in jail.
Gates' sentencing came Tuesday after he pleaded guilty in 2018 to lying to the FBI and conspiracy to conceal income earned from his and former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort's work lobbying for Ukraine, The Washington Post reports. In addition to 45 days in jail, he was also sentenced to 36 months probation and must pay a $20,000 fine and complete 300 hours of community service, CBS News reports. He'll be able to serve his sentence on weekends.
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Judge Amy Berman Jackson said Tuesday that Gates has "in a very real way accepted responsibility for his actions," and "he's been at this long enough and under such onerous circumstances that one can believe in the transformation," The Daily Beast reports.
CBS News notes that Gates was one of six Trump associates charged in connection to the Mueller probe, while The Washington Post's Aaron Blake notes that Trump's associates "have now been sentenced to nearly 11 combined years in prison since he became president."
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