Former Donald Trump campaign aide Rick Gates will get out of house arrest so he can attend “events” to celebrate the new year. Gates, former lobbying partner and deputy of Trump’s ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort — who’s also under house arrest — won permission from U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Thursday to get out of house arrest for the New Year’s holiday. He won the reprieve even while his attorneys are explaining in another court action why Gates’ appearance in a fundraising video didn’t violate a gag order. Gates pleaded not guilty in October to multiple charges — including money laundering and failing to register as an agent of a foreign government — brought as part of the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russian interference into the U.S. presidential election. No details about Gates’ planned New Year’s activities were provided in the court documents.

Source: Huffington Post December 29, 2017 00:45 UTC