Papadopoulos ordered to jail Monday

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico



By JOSH GERSTEIN 11/25/2018 10:17 AM EST Updated 11/25/2018 10:22 AM EST

A federal judge has rejected a last-ditch bid by former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos to put off his looming but brief federal prison sentence.

In ruling issued just a day before Papapdopoulos was scheduled to report to serve his two-week sentence for making false statements to FBI agents investigating alleged links between the Trump campaign and Russia, U.S. District Court Judge Randy Moss said Papadopoulos’s legal arguments fell short of what was needed to justify delaying the sentence Moss imposed in September.

When Papapdopoulos entered his guilty plea last year, he passed up the opportunity to challenge special counsel Robert Mueller’s authority and the legality of his appointment, but in a pair of motions last week, the former Trump campaign adviser tried to harness a pending appeal in another case where a grand jury witness is leveling a legal attack on Mueller’s power.

However, Moss said in his 13-page ruling Sunday that Papadopoulos decision not to appeal his sentence and his agreement not to do so under most circumstances, left him with no viable legal avenue to demand relief. The judge also said he saw little likelihood the pending challenge to Mueller’s authority would prevail.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/25/george-papadopoulos-mueller-jail-1013330

[FreepFryer]

1. Good news, wrong URL :) n/t

[DonViejo]

2. Corrected. Thanks for the heads up! Much appreciated.

[FreepFryer]

3. No worries, cheers and thanks for the posts! (n/t)

[Jarqui]

4. After what Papadopoulos has said and done since his sentencing,

he's lucky he didn't get more.

[brush]

37. Yep, he's convicted and gave up any chance to appeal.

What does he think is going to happened, that his conviction is going to be wiped out?

He's luck he just got two weeks in jail. He needs to quit delaying and get it over with.

[Jarqui]

39. If you look at what he told the judge to get that lenient sentence (remorse) and

what he's said and done since (illustrating no remorse), he basically lied to the judge to get a light sentence and is not being held to account for it.

[duforsure]

45. I agree

He may regret his actions if more is discovered that he didn't talk to Mueller about, and that's very likely to happen.

[Achilleaze]

5. KGOP republican traitors to America are paying the price

For so submissively following the orders of the republican Draft-dodger-in-Chief

[Mrs. Overall]

6. Womp Womp

[mac56]

7. Wasn't he "just the coffee boy"?

[klook]

8. Yes.

He served Folger's and was convicted by an all-hipster jury who drink only pour-over artisanal Fair Trade coffee.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

9. Best part of this news of all....

Quote: "The judge also said he saw little likelihood the pending challenge to Mueller’s authority would prevail.".....

..........

[DesertRat]

23. +1

[ffr]

10. Another conservative republican dressed in orange.

[FakeNoose]

15. Well deserved too

[badhair77]

33. Orange is the team color of this administration.

[mitch96]

35. Lets see how all his bravado works for him

When he's in the slammer being bubba's bitch... Karma!!
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[GulfCoast66]

44. Prison rape jokes are not cool. Nor Liberal

I know it’s tempting. Believe me, it tempting. But let’s not go there.

[mitch96]

46. Sorry to offend and I am neither cool or liberal

Just your average guy who does not care for the republican platform.
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[PeeJ52]

11. Has anyone heard...

where he's going to serve his time and if he gets his own private room of if he's going to be thrown in with the rest of the general prison population. I sure hope he gets a "taste" of what it is like to really be in jail...

[Ptah]

12. What is a "taste" of what it is like to really be in jail.

[Iggo]

14. Yeah please explain what a "taste" of really being in jail means.

[harumph]

19. kinda like a hours old burger king burger with wilted lettuce

[Iggo]

41. LOL...lettuce.

That's cute.

[janterry]

20. He's going to club fed

so, it shouldn't be that hard.

[DonViejo]

27. In the full article at the link in the OP, his wife says he will be going to a prison in Wisconsin.

[Historic NY]

13. I go, I go, its off to jail I go...

[Coventina]

26. Thanks for the laugh!

[bluestarone]

16. Wonder if any future charges are possible?

I hope so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Maxheader]

17. "serve his two-week sentence ????"

2 weeks? That's it?

put off his looming but brief federal prison sentence.

What a weeny...

[BlueStater]

28. I wouldn't even want to spend a single day surrounded by murderers and rapists, frankly. n/t

[ret5hd]

32. You don't really believe they are gonna..

drop an "upper class" into the middle of gen-pop for a two week sentence do you?

Hell, it will take them a good part of that time just to get him processed and assigned to a "permanent" cell.

[mitch96]

42. Yup, two weeks... for lying...

I think Martha Stewart got more time for lying... Jeeze he is acting like he is going to SingSing for life... a little snowflake.. he might melt in jail..
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[MineralMan]

18. C'mon George...You Can Do It Standing on Your Head...

[demsocialist]

24. 14 days???

What a joke. And he tried to get out of it. What a chickenshit.

[workinclasszero]

21. George, I don't really care do you?

[marble falls]

22. Why is he fighting a measly two weeks? In the GOP that's called making your bones!!

[canetoad]

25. Serious question

From a non US person who has stopped laughing at the hapless George PapaD long enough to type it: What are the consequences of being a federally convicted prisoner once he has served his sentence?

I'm thinking along the lines of employment opportunities closed; are there positions he cannot hold in the future, organisations he cannot join? It may be a short sentence but I suspect it will have a large impact on his future. Thoughts?

[DonViejo]

29. Depending on where he lives, as a convicted felon, he may lose his right to vote

[canetoad]

30. Thank you

As the song said, "Always something there to remind me."

[empedocles]

31. Something 'to remind me'

DU could use a running tally of trumpsters who have been jailed? [To 'remind us']

[brush]

38. Oh yeah, all that goes out the window. He'll be lucky to find some low-level gig...

in the future. His blonde wife is probably considering her options with him now as well.

[AKing]

34. 2 weeks in Oxford is nothing. The salad bar is supposed to be fabulous. The only downside there

is cold weather.

[SunSeeker]

36. Good. He's a stupid, slimy traitor. He got off lucky with his plea deal.

Lock him up!

[homegirl]

40. He should have been given a choice:

a. Two months in jail-two week is ridiculous!
b. One year house arrest with an ankle monitor.

[brooklynite]

43. The good news is that Tuesday is Taco Night in the Big House...