SFGATE: Ex-Trump campaign aide agrees to guilty plea in Russia probe

Ex-Trump campaign aide agrees to guilty plea in Russia probe
Published on February 23, 2018 at 05:19PM by By JEFF HORWITZ, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rick Gates, a top adviser to the 2016 Trump campaign and close aide of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is expected to plead guilty in the ongoing Russia probe being led by special counsel Robert Mueller, according to a person close to Gates. The person said Gates is expected to enter the plea as early as Friday. The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss private conversations, said Gates had informed family and friends in a letter about his decision. A plea could signal that he's planning to cooperate. It would mark the fifth publicly known guilty plea in the probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin during the 2016 campaign.
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