which your client's testimony may be deemed relevant by the government. ouch. this is a very thorough agreement to cooperate. testify to a grand jury, testify to trial, show up whenever we need you to. go undercover, give us everything you got and be here every single time we want to talk to you. if he fails to live up to this agreement, whether or not they ever decide to go and bring charges against him just this plea agreement he signed today gives mueller's office tons of leverage over rick gates. just what he's pleading guilty to affords a maximum prison sentence of ten years in federal prison. even under the sentencing guidelines that account for him not having a previous record and all the rest, the filings today make clear that under the sentencing guidelines, these two charges he pled guilty today, yeah, there is a maximum prison term of ten years but realistically, they would be looking to put him in prison for somewhere between 4.5 to six