Trump deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates continues to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller and "several ongoing investigations," according to a joint status report filed Friday.
CNBC:
The joint report from Mueller and Gates’ attorney, which asks a federal judge for 60 more days before providing the next update on Gates’ status, comes amid increasing speculation that the special counsel’s Russia probe is coming to an end.
The filing also arrives two days after Gates’ longtime business partner and former Trump campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, received his final prison sentence on charges lodged by Mueller in federal court.
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In February 2018, Gates struck a deal with prosecutors, pleading guilty to two criminal counts including conspiracy and lying to FBI agents.
Since then, Gates appears to have cooperated extensively with Mueller’s team. His most visible role as a cooperating witness came in August, when he testified against Manafort in his tax and bank fraud trial in Virginia federal court.
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In January, Mueller said in a court filing that Gates “continues to cooperate with respect to several ongoing investigations, and accordingly the parties do not believe it is appropriate to commence the sentencing process at this time.”
“The status of this matter has not changed substantially since the January report,” Mueller and Gates’ lawyer, Thomas Green, said in the court document Friday morning.
Gates has not yet received a sentencing date.