Former Trump Campaign Aide Sentenced To Jail: Reports

Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos has been sentenced to 14 days in jail in the special counsel's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, The New York Times reports. Papadopoulos' was sentenced to jail because prosecutors said he repeatedly lied during an interview with investigators in 2017 that "impeded the inquiry at a critical moment," according to the NYT.

Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in October 2017. When the former campaign aide's guilty plea was unsealed, an accompanying statement of facts detailed his efforts to set up a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and his cooperation with prosecutors since his arrest at an airport in 2016.

According to the Times, prosecutors said they failed to arrest a professor suspected of being a Russian agent because of Papadopoulos' apparent lies.

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Reporting from The Associated Press was used in this report.

Photo: WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 07: Former Trump Campaign aide George Papadopoulos arrives with his wife Simona Mangiante at the U.S. District Court for his sentencing hearing September 7, 2018 in Washington, DC. Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty last year for making a 'materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement' to investigators during FBI's probe of Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images News/Getty Images)