Papadopoulos sentenced to 14 days in jail in Mueller probe

The following article by Morgan Chalfant was posted on the Hill website September 7, 2018:

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Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos has been sentenced to 14 days in federal prison and one year supervised release for lying to FBI investigators about his Russia contacts.

Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty in October to lying to FBI agents, is the first Trump campaign official to be sentenced as part of special counsel Robert Mueller‘s probe into Russia’s election interference.

The former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser was also sentenced on Friday afternoon in federal court in Washington, D.C., to 200 hours of community service and faces a $9,500 fine.

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