Mueller asks for another sentencing delay for Trump campaign official Rick Gates because he is cooperating in ‘several’ probes

Special counsel Robert Mueller and a lawyer for Rick Gates, the Trump campaign official convicted of lying to federal investigators, on Tuesday asked for a further postponement of Gates’ sentencing, citing his continuing cooperation in “several ongoing investigations.”

Mueller and Gates’ lawyer, in a filing in federal court in Washington, D.C., asked the judge in the case to allow them to next update the judge about the status of Gates’ case by no later than March 15.

The request for a delay came a day after multiple media reports about lavish spending by President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee. The $107 million in spending by that committee, on which Gates was deputy chairman, already was the subject of a federal criminal investigation.

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