Mueller says former Trump adviser is now cooperati

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Mueller says former Trump adviser is now cooperating with multiple investigations

Source: ThinkProgress

Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team of investigators looking into possible Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election have been famously tight-lipped about their work.

With some rare exceptions, court filings are typically the only occasions in which news gets out about the latest developments in Mueller’s probe — which has already racked up over 100 criminal charges against dozens of people, including guilty pleas from President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, former campaign manager, and multiple former advisers.

One of those former Trump advisers is Rick Gates, the president’s 2016 deputy campaign chairman who pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy against the U.S. and making false statements to the FBI.

When Mueller’s team, which contains “a vast array of experience investigating financial fraud, corruption, money laundering, foreign bribery, organized crime, and more,” updates the courts on the status of cooperating witnesses like Gates, it provides a timeframe for the next notice.

After a period in which the Mueller team stayed largely out of the news — the better to not influence or interfere with the midterm elections, a standard policy for the Justice Department that former FBI director James Comey ignored during the 2016 presidential election — it appears as though the Russia investigation is heating back up.

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/rick-gates-robert-m...7ed89f802/

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