What Rick Gates told Mueller may earn him a light sentence next week

The Justice Department said Rick Gates deserves probation after his star witness role in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

“The government respectfully moves this Court for a significant downward departure from Gates’s advisory guidelines range based on his substantial assistance, and does not oppose his request for probation,” U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jessie Liu’s office told the court Tuesday, agreeing with the former Trump campaign deputy chairman’s lawyers. “The government respectfully requests that the court make Gates’s continued cooperation a condition of his sentence.”