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Key Mueller Cooperator Gates Testifies in Trial of DC Lawyer

Associated Press

   WASHINGTON - A key cooperator in special counsel Robert Mueller's
   Russia investigation has begun testifying in the foreign lobbying trial
   of prominent Washington attorney Greg Craig.

   Rick Gates was on the witness stand Thursday morning in Washington's
   federal court.

   Gates is a former campaign aide to President Donald Trump who pleaded
   guilty last year in Mueller's investigation and agreed to cooperate
   with prosecutors in multiple probes.

   One of those cases concerns Craig, a former White House counsel under
   President Barack Obama.

   Craig was charged in April with willfully concealing material facts
   from the Justice Department about work he performed for the Ukrainian
   government that also involved Gates and then-business partner Paul
   Manafort.
   Gates is acknowledging his past crimes on the witness stand, and that
   he is testifying under a cooperation agreement.

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