Rick Gates, a former top official in President Trump’s campaign, is expected to plead guilty Friday to charges brought by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in his investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and cooperate with prosecutors, according to a person familiar with the situation.
It is not clear to what charges Gates intends to plead guilty.”
As reported here by the Washington Post, and previously by the NYT, Gates is pleading guilty after all. Perhaps yesterday’s new indictments, which along with the original ones could have put him away for life, were the inducement. Now it remains to be seen if the big fish he can deliver is Manafort...or someone still in the Trump White House.