Special counsel's office: Papadopoulos 'small part' of 'large scale investigation'
Source: CNN
By Katelyn Polantz, CNN
Updated 6:22 PM ET, Mon October 30, 2017
Washington (CNN)Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos' guilty plea Monday appears to hint toward even more threads of the ongoing Russia collusion investigation than what the court revealed
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"The criminal justice interest being vindicated here is there's a large-scale ongoing investigation of which this case is a small part," Aaron Zelinsky of the special counsel's office said during Papadopoulos' October 5 plea agreement hearing, records of which were unsealed Monday.
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"Although the government is moving expeditiously to interview individuals of immediate interest to the investigation, news that the defendant has been charged with and pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents may make those individuals reluctant to speak with investigators," the special counsel's office wrote on October 3.
"Revealing the defendant's plea would likely chill individuals to be interviewed in the coming weeks," the filing added.
In a transcript of his plea hearing, Zelinsky also referred to a "road map" it feared revealing about the larger investigation. ...........................
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/30/politics/special-counsel-papadopoulos-small-part-of-large-scale-investigation/index.html
We are reminded that Mueller and his team know soooooooooo much more, so so so much more.
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