Trump associates caught in legal troubles
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Legal cases involving Trump associates
US President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon on Thursday pleaded not guilty to charges that he ripped off donors to an online fundraising scheme to build a wall on the US border with Mexico, a key Trump initiative. A look at other legal cases involving Trump associates
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Michael Cohen
Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, was sentenced to three years in prison in 2018 after pleading guilty to campaign fi nance charges, among other crimes. These include his efforts to arrange payouts to keep porn actress Stormy Daniels and model Karen McDougal from making public claims of extramarital affairs with Trump. Trump has denied the affairs.
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Paul Manafort
Paul Manafort, who led Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign for a few months, cut a deal with prosecutors in September 2018 and pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Manafort was separately convicted of eight felony counts related to millions of dollars he hid from the IRS in offshore accounts.
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Rick Gates
Rick Gates, Manafort’s longtime business associate and a former Trump campaign adviser, pleaded guilty in February 2018 to federal conspiracy and false-statements charges.
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Roger Stone
Roger Stone, a longtime ally and confi dant of the president, was sentenced to 40 months in prison for lying to Congress, tampering with witnesses and obstructing the House’s inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
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Michael Flynn
Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn was the only White House offi cial charged in the Russia investigation.
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George Papadopoulos
George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser to Trump’s 2016 campaign, was sentenced in 2018 to 14 days in prison for lying to the FBI about his contacts with a professor in Europe who told him about dirt Russia had on Hillary Clinton. That triggered the start of FBI probe in 2016.