Convicted:Paul ManafortMr. Manafort was convicted on charges including tax and bank fraud at his trial in federal court in Alexandria, Va.
Since he was charged, Mr. Manafort has maintained his innocence and has sued the Justice Department, claiming that Mr. Mueller overstepped his authority as special counsel by bringing charges unrelated to Russian election interference. The dozens of counts of money laundering and bank fraud charges he faced were related to his work as a lobbyist and political consultant for Viktor F. Yanukovych, the Russia-aligned former president of Ukraine who was ousted in 2014.
In early June, Mr. Mueller charged Mr. Manafort with obstruction of justice, accusing him of trying tamper with witnesses in his case. Prosecutors said he had violated the terms of his release (Mr. Manafort was free on a $10 million bond awaiting trial), and a federal judge sent him to jail to await trial.
Mr. Manafort pleaded not guilty to those charges and additional charges related to his alleged failure to register as a foreign agent and conspiracy to launder money. A second trial for those charges was set for September in Washington.
Pleaded GuiltyMichael D. CohenMr. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former personal fixer and lawyer, pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including campaign finance violations, tax evasion and bank fraud.
The campaign finance violations relate to two payments Mr. Cohen said he made to two women during the 2016 campaign to prevent them from publicly airing their allegations that they had affairs with Mr. Trump. Mr. Cohen said Mr. Trump had requested the payments be arranged.
Mr. Cohen’s plea deal did not include a requirement that he cooperate with federal prosecutors. However, he can provide information or evidence to them or Mr. Mueller’s investigators later.
Pleaded Guilty and Known to Be CooperatingGeorge PapadopoulosMr. Papadopoulos, a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, pleaded guilty on Oct. 5 to lying to the F.B.I. about a conversation with a professor during which he was told that Moscow had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton and “thousands of emails,” according to court records. He was sentenced to 14 days in jail, fined $9,500 and ordered to complete 200 hours of community service and one year of probation after he serves his sentence.
Mr. Papadopoulos initially told investigators that he met with the professor, who has known ties to the Kremlin, before he joined the Trump campaign. In fact, the meeting happened days after he became a campaign adviser, and he repeatedly tried to arrange meetings between Russian government officials and the Trump campaign.
He has been cooperating with the Mueller investigation since his arrest last July at Dulles Airport outside Washington. Mr. Papadopoulos was the first person to plead guilty in the inquiry.
In court filings, Mr. Mueller had recommended that Mr. Papadopoulos be sentenced for up to six months in prison for repeatedly lying to investigators.
Michael T. FlynnMr. Flynn, President Trump’s first national security adviser, pleaded guilty in early December to lying to the F.B.I. about conversations he had in 2016 with the Russian ambassador to the United States at the time, Sergey I. Kislyak. Prosecutors said that in separate conversations, Mr. Flynn discussed an upcoming United Nations Security Council vote over whether Israel should be condemned for building settlements and over sanctions that President Barack Obama had issued against Russia.
Although his sentencing is delayed, court documents indicate Mr. Flynn will face zero to six months of prison time.
The first senior White House official to agree to a deal with prosecutors, Mr. Flynn has been cooperating with Mr. Mueller’s investigation. He said in a statement at the time that the decision to cooperate and the guilty plea “reflect a decision I made in the best interests of my family and of our country.”
Richard PinedoRichard Pinedo, a Southern California computer science major, pleaded guilty in February to identity fraud after he created and sold fake bank accounts from 2014 through the end of 2017. While his indictment supported the charges Mr. Mueller brought against 13 Russian nationals for election meddling, a spokesman for the special counsel said prosecutors had “no evidence and there is no allegation he was a witting participant in the Russian efforts to interfere in U.S. elections and political processes.”
Mr. Pinedo has been cooperating with the Mueller investigation.
Alex van der ZwaanThe son-in-law of a Russian billionaire and a lawyer who worked with the former Trump campaign aides Rick Gates and Paul Manafort, Mr. van der Zwaan pleaded guilty to lying to prosecutors about a conversation he had with Mr. Gates in September 2016. Mr. van der Zwaan, a 33-year-old Dutch citizen, is a former lawyer in London for a powerful New York-based law firm — Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
In April, Mr. van der Zwaan became the first person to be sentenced in the special counsel’s investigation. He was sentenced to 30 days in prison and fined $20,000.
Rick GatesRick Gates, the former deputy chairman for Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign, pleaded guilty in February to a pair of charges, conspiracy against the United States and lying to investigators. The plea deal came as Mr. Mueller was levying dozens of new charges of bank fraud and money laundering against Mr. Gates and Mr. Manafort, the campaign’s former chairman and a longtime associate of Mr. Gates.
The men were first indicted in October, and both pleaded not guilty. For nearly four months, Mr. Gates stood by that decision but said in February that “the reality of how long this legal process will likely take, the cost, and the circuslike atmosphere of an anticipated trial” had prompted a change of heart.
Mr. Gates, who agreed to cooperate with the special counsel’s investigation, testified against Mr. Manafort.
Charged:Roger Stone Jr. Charges: Obstruction of an official proceeding, making false statements and witness tampering
Twelve Russian Intelligence OfficersCharges: Conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, identity theft, conspiracy to launder money
Konstantin V. Kilimnik Russian Army-trained linguist and associate of Mr. Manafort
Charges: Obstruction of justice
Thirteen Russian nationals and three related companiesConspiracy to defraud the U.S., conspiracy to commit bank fraud, identity theft
Charged or Guilty in related Cases that stemmed from information discovered in this investigation Bijan Kian Former business associate of Michael T. Flynn
Charges: Conspiracy to violate federal lobbying rules
Ekim Alptekin Former business associate of Michael T. Flynn
Charges: Conspiracy to violate federal lobbying rules and lying to F.B.I.
Maria Butina Alleged Russian agent
Guilty: Conspiring to act as a foreign agent
Sam Patten Lobbyist linked to Konstantin V. Kilimnik
Guilty: Failing to register to work as an agent of a foreign power
I have yet to find any criminal convictions or guilty pleas from the Benghazi investigation. Despite the fact that congress investigated Benghazi for a longer period of time then they investigated 9/11
As a matter of fact, the report faults the U.S. Military,
not Clinton or Obama as well as the Obama administration on some fronts for the tragedy.
Source Also, it is incredibly important to note that Obama did not attempt to claim that the investigation was a "witch hunt" like trump seems so fond of doing.
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