WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Special Counsel Robert Mueller recommended in a court filing on Friday that a judge sentence former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos to up to six months in prison for lying to federal agents investigating whether Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Papadopoulos pleaded guilty in October to lying to FBI agents and is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 7. Mueller said the government believed a sentence of up to six months in prison was “appropriate and warranted” along with a fine of $9,500. Muller also told the judge that Papadopoulos had not fully cooperated with prosecutors. Mueller also said Papadopoulos avoided until the last moment telling prosecutors about a cell phone he used in London that had “substantial communications” on it between he and the professor who claimed to know about Russian information on Clinton.

Source: Huffington Post August 18, 2018 01:18 UTC