Political operative Samuel Patten has been sentenced to 36 months of probation in a case related to the Mueller investigation, Reuters reported.
According to reports, 47-year-old Patten pleaded guilty in August last year to contacting US legislators and news media organisations on behalf of a Russia-aligned political party in Ukraine called the Opposition Bloc without reporting that work to the Justice Department, in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), among other offenses.
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When Patten pleaded guilty last year, his case revealed that he had arranged a scheme to evade the federal ban on foreign donations to inaugural committees on behalf of a Ukrainian politician. While being aware of the ban, Patten lined up an American straw buyer to front $50,000 for four tickets to the inauguration of the politician, who, according to court papers, had paid Patten's company for the tickets using an account in Cyprus.