@bobgeese
"Roughly 60 percent of defendants in such cases receive probation, the judge said" and the judge "stressed the importance of the investigation to the integrity of American democracy. Because determining whether a foreign government interfered in the electoral process was “a matter of enormous importance,” he said, Mr. Papadopoulos’s crime was “significantly more serious than the typical violation.”... While Mr. Papadopoulos deserved a harsher punishment than probation, the judge said, he also deserved credit for trying to cooperate and for his apparent contrition. In that, he said, he differed from Alex van der Zwaan, a Dutch lawyer
who pleaded guilty to deceiving the special counsel’s office about
his work for Paul Manafort, the president’s former campaign manager, who was convicted last month on fraud charges. Mr. van der Zwaan, who served a 30-day
prison sentence, expressed little remorse during his sentencing.
And, George P's lawyer, Thomas Breen, tried to shift some of the blame for his client’s lies to President Trump. He suggested that Mr. Papadopoulos took his cues from Mr. Trump, who has tried to discredit the inquiry by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, into Russia’s interference in the election and whether any Trump associates conspired... “The president of the United States hindered this investigation more than George Papadopoulos ever could,” Mr. Breen said. “The message for all of us is to check our loyalty, to tell the truth, to help the good guys.”
And this was a hearing you Trumpleforeskins are celebrating as a win against Mueller's cause (a.k.a., "the good guys")!


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/...sentencing-special-counsel-investigation.html