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Which i take it you and your lawyer have gone over carefully? yes, your honor. the judge, are you the one who signed it on the last page where it says defendant's acceptance indicating it was true? the defendant, yes, your honor. the judge, do you understand if i accept your guilty plea in this case, could you receive a maximum sentence of up to five years incarceration for that offense? i do, your honor. the judge, do you understand in this case as part of your plea agreement, there is a paragraph that requires to you cooperate fully and truthfully in this case? the defendant, sam patten, yes...

Is the same pay master for paul manafort for all the work did he in ukraine. more than $40 million of the overseas payments that prosecutors swra funneled to paul manafort came from this guy, sergei lovochkin. so lots of linked to manafort. you may have heard when they charged this guy sam patten today and they got his guilty plea, you may have mattered prosecutors claimed in his case that patten illegally funneled foreign money into the trump inauguration. that's a $50,000 illegal don't participation prosecutors described today. this $50,000 in illegal foreign money that was funneled into the...

Natasha, thank you for being here. congratulations on being the early spotter here. why did you write about sam patten back in april for the atlantic? he is certainly not only a household name but not a name that has been on a lot of people's radar at all. >> i was researching constantin kilimnik, he is a major player in the russia investigation, being as close as he is with paul manafort, and i got a tip that kilimnik was not just operating overseas. he had opened up this company with this operative sam patten. so i started researching patten and i lermd that he is very much like manafort. li...

Court, they said sam came forward with a proffer, with his formal offer on may 22nd of this year. what caused sam patten to come forward to prosecutors? on may 22? we don't know exactly but it may be helpful to note just before that, about a week and a half before that, abc news published this great and super important investigative piece about the trump inauguration before the the possibility of foreign money coming into the trump inauguration. you see the headline. exclusive special counsel probing donations with foreign connections to trump inauguration. abc news broke really important stor...

Cooperating on may 22nd. that also tells us that hey, the mueller investigation had an active cooperating witness working with them for more than the past three months and none of us had any idea about it. mueller side of this doesn't leak. if you were hoping to get juicy leaks out of the special counsel's office, nobody is getting it. otherwise we would have mattered sam patten was a cooperator and due to be charged someday. the prosecutors say that sam patten lied to and obstructed the senate intelligence committee. and the senate investigation of the scandal. we hadn't even knew that he tel...