On September 7, 2018, Papadopoulos was sentenced to 14 days in prison, 12 months of supervised release, and 200 hours of community service; he was also fined $9,500. He began serving his 14-day sentence on November 26, 2018, at FCI Oxford in Oxford, Wisconsin, and was released 12 days later on December 7, 2018.
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Trump granted clemency to five of his former campaign staff members and political advisers: Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Stephen K. Bannon, and George Papadopoulos. Many of Trump's grants of clemency were criticized by the federal agents and prosecutors who investigated and prosecuted the cases.
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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Geórgios Papadopoulos (/ˌpæpəˈdɒpələs/; Greek: Γεώργιος Παπαδόπουλος [ʝeˈorʝi. os papaˈðopulos]; 5 May 1919 – 27 June 1999) was a Greek military officer and political leader who ruled Greece as a military dictator from 1967 to 1973.
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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Geórgios Papadopoulos (/ˌpæpəˈdɒpələs/; Greek: Γεώργιος Παπαδόπουλος [ʝeˈorʝi. os papaˈðopulos]; 5 May 1919 – 27 June 1999) was a Greek military officer and political leader who ruled Greece as a military dictator from 1967 to 1973.
The “sexy bottle blonde” woman whom a former Trump campaign adviser says came on to him in a London bar was sent there by the FBI to investigate suspected campaign collusion with Russia, according to a new report Thursday.
Papadopoulos — who later served 12 days in prison for lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian intermediaries during the campaign — also expanded on his encounter with Turk in his memoir, “Deep State Target,” published in March.
In the book, Papadopoulos recounts how Turk contacted him shortly after he arrived in London by sending a text message that said , “Let’s meet for a drink. I’m looking forward to meeting you.”
Last month, Attorney General William Barr told a Congressional committee that he thought “spying did occur” and that he’d be looking into the “genesis” of the FBI probe that was later taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller.
The FBI first interviewed Papadopoulos on January 27, 2017. Papadopoulos told FBI agents in that interview that Mifsud had told him the Russians had “dirt” on then-candidate Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails.” Papadopoulos, however, also told the agents that at the time Mifsud shared this information, “I wasn’t even on the Trump team.”
Also, as the government stated in its court filings, the Trump campaign publicly named Papadopoulos a foreign policy advisor on March 21, 2016. Under these circumstances, Papadopoulos’ first misstatement — that he was not yet working with the Trump campaign — could not possibly have “substantially hindered investigators’ ability to effectively question Mifsud.”
Also, as noted above, immediately upon launching operation Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI sent Strzok and another trusted agent to London, where they interviewed several individuals. The investigation also spurred the Department of Justice to seek a FISA warrant on Page in October 2016.
First: in his January 2017 interview, Papadopoulos claimed that he was not part of the Trump campaign when Mifsud told him the Russians had “dirt” on Hillary. The FBI knew that statement was false, as demonstrated by the FISA application submitted in October 2016.
Papadopoulos also told the FBI that Mifsud was “a nothing,” and that he thought Mifsud was “just a guy talk [ing] up connections or something,” while in fact, Papadopoulos thought Mifsud had high-level Russian connections. These two lies would eventually form the basis of the criminal charges Mueller filed against Papadopoulos and for which he now awaits sentencing.
From text messages between former FBI agent Peter Strzok and his mistress, former FBI attorney Lisa Page, we know one of the first things the FBI did after officially launching the probe into the Trump campaign was send Strzok and another trusted agent to London. Strzok’s texts reveal he arrived in London on August 1 and flew back to the District of Columbia on August 3, following at least one meeting and several interviews, bringing with him a slew of documents.
Approximately two weeks later, the FBI interviewed Mifsud when, as the special counsel put it, “the FBI located him in Washington, D.C.” That shouldn’t have proven too difficult, given that Mifsud had flown to the United States to present at a conference sponsored by the State Department! Yet the FBI did not detain or arrest Mifsud, and the special counsel’s filing from last week represents the first public acknowledgment of the FBI’s February 2017 interview of Mifsud.
Mifsud and Papadopoulos first met March 14, 2016, at Link Campus, days after Papadopoulos found out he would be joining the Trump team. Papadopoulos worked at the time at the London Centre for International Law Practice (LCILP), a London-based think tank.
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Halper offered Papadopoulos $3,000 and a flight to London to meet and discuss writing a policy paper. Papadopoulos was the first to mention Mifsud in his FBI interview. But he would later be accused of lying to agents about the extent and timing of his contacts with his Maltese associate.
Mifsud also introduced Papadopoulos to Ivan Timofeev, an executive at a Russian think tank that has ties to Russia’s foreign ministry. Mifsud and Polonskskaya said they could put Papadopoulos in touch with Russia’s ambassador to the U.K., but that never came to pass.
The Mueller report does not include any evidence to support Papadopoulos’ claims that Mifsud has links to the FBI. But Stephan Roh, a friend and adviser to Mifsud, has told The Daily Caller News Foundation that Mifsud has some affiliation with Western intelligence agencies.
Mifsud introduced Papadopoulos to a woman he claimed to be the niece of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mifsud introduced the woman as Olga Vinagradova, though it was later determined that her real name is Olga Polonskaya and that she is not related to Putin.
FBI agents interviewed Mifsud in February 2017, during his visit to the U.S. for a State Department event. According to Mueller’s report, Mifsud denied having advance knowledge that Russia had Clinton emails. He also claims Papadopoulos was mistaken in claiming they discussed the topic.
He initially met Mifsud at a university called Lake Campus, which is a training ground for Western intelligence operatives in Rome.
Another one of Papadopoulos’ meetings was with Charles Tawil, who requested a photograph with Papadopoulos after they initially met. That’s noteworthy, as all of the intelligence figures that presented themselves to Papadopoulos requested photos of the two together afterward (as proof of the meeting, perhaps).
Millian offered 30k per month for the job (which would’ve been PR related), with one bizarre condition: that Papadopoulos only could take the job if he did so while simultaneously working in the Trump administration.
Throughout all of the key meetings Papadopoulos discussed during the interview, they all shared a common thread in that he was being recorded. At the beginning of various meetings, the person he was meeting with would take out their cell phone and place it on the table, leading him to believe he was being recorded. That’s what happened within minutes of Papadopoulos meeting with Sergei Millian and Stefan Halper. Alexander Downer was a bit more explicit, pulling out his phone and holding it up as if he was video-recording Papadopoulos. He then presumably kept audio-recording as their conversation progressed.
Papadopoulos said he could confirm that there was at least one more spy infiltrating the Trump campaign in addition to Halper but wouldn’t name them for legal reasons. He only revealed that it was a relatively low-level player that most people have never heard of.
March 14 2016 – Papadopoulos first meets Mifsud in Italy – approximately one week after finding out he will be joining the Trump team.
April 22 2016 – Timofeev sends Papadopoulos an email thanking him “for an extensive talk” and proposing “to meet in London or in Moscow.”
Papadopoulos was introduced to Downer through a chain of two intermediaries.
The FISA court turned down the application asking FBI counter-intelligence investigators to narrow its focus.
It was – allegedly – a tape recording of a conversation about money from the Kremlin going into the US presidential campaign.
The Guardian has learned that the FBI applied for a warrant from the foreign intelligence surveillance (FISA) court over the summer [2016] in order to monitor four members of the Trump team suspected of irregular contacts with Russian officials.
Thompson reached out to Papadopoulos two days after Papadopoulos gave an interview to the London Times. Thompson said Downer wanted to meet with Papadopoulos. Thus, the May 10th London meeting between Downer and Papadopoulos came into being.
Papadopoulos pleaded guilty on Oct. 5, 2017 to giving false statements to the FBI about his the timing and extent of his contacts with Mifsud. The former Trump aide told FBI agents during a Jan. 27, 2017 interview that Mifsud told him in April 2016 that the Russian government had “dirt on Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands” of her emails. (RELATED: Mueller Claims Papadopoulos Hindered Russia Probe, Recommends Up To Six Months In Jail)
Shortly after joining the campaign, Papadopoulos first met Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor who worked at the London Centre for International Law Practice (LCILP). Papadopoulos worked at the think tank, as well, but did not know Mifsud. Mangiante Papadopoulos also worked at LCILP and knew Mifsud prior to meeting Papadopoulos.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller revealed that George Papadopoulos received a $10,000 cash payment from a man that the former Trump aide believed was a spy.
Sources familiar with the matter told TheDCNF Tawil flew to the Greek island of Mykonos to meet Papadopoulos and his now-wife, Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos. Tawil invited the pair to Israel, but Mangiante Papadopoulos stayed behind.
Mysterious encounters have become a theme for Papadopoulos, a 30-year-old energy consultant who joined the Trump campaign in early March 2016 after a stint on the Ben Carson campaign.
Papadopoulos gave the money to an attorney in Greece before traveling back to the U.S., a source told TheDCNF on the condition of anonymity. Papadopoulos was arrested at Dulles International Airport on a return trip from overseas on July 27, 2017.
Sergei Millian, an alleged source for the infamous Steele dossier, unsolicitedly contacted Papadopoulos on July 22, 2016, requesting a meeting with Papadopoulos. The pair met several times during the 2016 election campaign. Mangiante Papadopoulos has told TheDCNF that Millian offered Papadopoulos a $30,000-per-month contract on behalf of a Russian energy company.
The reason why the Obama FBI was even aware of Papadopoulos’ lie about Mifsud is because they repeatedly defrauded the FISA Court (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court) to illegally spy on 2016 Trump campaign aides Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.
Papadopoulos was sentenced to 14 days in jail for lying to the FBI. President Trump reacted by trashing Mueller for wasting $28 million in taxpayer money to sentence Papadopoulos — a low-level former campaign aide — to 14 days in jail.
This is problematic because FISA requests are approved almost 100% of the time because the judge relies on the good-faith representations of the FBI and CIA that the surveillance is necessary to protect national security.
A hypothesis that sources of the prosecutor believe “80%” true: “The chances that he died confirm by the court are very high.”
Judge Collyer underscored in her volcanic beatdown of the Obama FBI: “The FISC expects the government to provide complete and accurate information in every filing with the Court.”
The Obama FBI ( under then-director James Comey) even used a “honey pot” to entrap Papadopoulos.
Papadopoulos later confessed that he lied , but his boast was one of the triggers that led to the Obama FBI’s fruitless investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign.