UPDATE: Associated Press:
Papadopoulos arrived at a minimum-security camp in Oxford, Wisconsin, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Ex-Trump campaign adviser Papadopoulos reports to prison (AP)
Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos will head to jail Monday as a judge has denied his request to postpone his sentence pending the outcome of a separate case.
Papadopoulos will serve 14 days for lying to the FBI but wanted to see what happened in Roger Stone associate Andrew Miller's challenge to the constitutionality of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's appointment before reporting to prison. A judge said no.
[I]n a 13-page opinion Sunday, U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss said Papadopoulos had waited too long to contest his sentence. Moss noted that Papadopoulos had agreed not to appeal in most circumstances as part of his plea agreement and the judge said the challenge to Mueller’s appointment was unlikely to be successful in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Four different federal judges have upheld Mueller’s appointment as proper.
“The prospect that the D.C. Circuit will reach a contrary conclusion is remote,” Moss wrote.
Papadopoulos had filed an initial motion on Nov. 16, nearly two months after the deadline for appealing his conviction or sentence. He followed up with a request to delay his sentence pending that motion on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving.
“Papadopoulos waited until the eleventh hour to seek relief; indeed, he did not file his second motion — the stay request — until the last business day before he was scheduled to surrender to serve his sentence,” Moss’ order states. “He has only his own delay to blame.
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Papadopoulos’ sentence, issued by Moss on Sept. 7, was far less than the maximum six-month sentence sought by the government but more than the probation that Papadopoulos and his lawyers had asked for. Moss at the time noted that many similar cases resulted in probation but said he imposed a sentence of incarceration partly to send a message to the public that people can’t lie to the FBI.
Papadopoulos, the first campaign aide sentenced in Mueller’s investigation, triggered the initial Russia investigation two years ago. Memos written by House Republicans and Democrats and now declassified show that information about Papadopoulos’ contacts with Russian intermediaries set in motion the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation in July 2016 into potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign. That probe was later taken over by Mueller.
Since sentencing, Papadopoulos has reversed course on any expression of regret or remorse. He often uses Twitter to bash the Russia investigation, claiming the U.S. government framed him.
Ex-Trump campaign adviser Papadopoulos to report to prison (WaPo)