George Papadopoulos, former Chicago councilor and former Trump advisor, goes to jail

CHICAGO (WLS) –

Although he pleaded guilty to having lied to the FBI, George Papadopoulos, a former Trump advisor, enters a federal prison incredulous Monday about Trump.

"I still can not believe the day I will go to a federal prison camp, say the traditional media, looking for my Russian contacts (sic)," he sent a message to his 74,000 subscribers on Twitter shortly before its scheduled release to the Oxford Correctional Center in central Wisconsin.

Papadopoulos has continued his stream of social media awareness against those who describe him as a Russian channel tricked by US Special Attorney Robert Mueller.

"I've never met a single Russian leader in my life," says the 31-year-old North Side Chicagoan. "However, I have met many Western sources of information – Joseph Mifsud – that people still call" Russian. "Facts." United States. "

After being a volunteer foreign policy advisor for the Trump campaign in 2016, the federal authorities caught Papadopoulos telling lies about his contact with Russian-born professor Joseph Mifsud and a woman who claimed to be the niece of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mifsud, interestingly to Papadopoulos, told Chicago that Russian intelligence had collected thousands of emails on Hillary Clinton. Papadopoulos urged campaign leaders to hold a meeting between the then-candidate Trump and President Putin.

Monday's capitulation by the foreign policy expert to the scrapping puts an end to an unusual back and forth in recent weeks, with Papadopoulos challenging Mueller's special prosecutor status.

A federal judge in Washington, DC on Sunday rejected Papadopoulos' attempt to stay out of jail for the 11th hour, allowing him to go to jail on Monday.

In September, he was sentenced to two weeks in federal prison, although it never seemed to settle the plea agreement that he had reached with the federal government. US prosecutors nor the acceptance of the sentence imposed by a judge, despite its relative leniency.

Trump's former assistant wanted the date of his jail put back on the ice until questions about Mueller could be resolved.

On Sunday, in a 13-page notice, US District Judge Randy Moss determined that Papadopoulos' legal arguments were not sufficient to justify postponing the date of the prison's minutes.

Papadopoulos' legal claim was unusual because it took place after he pleaded guilty, after confessing the crime, after participating in a sentencing hearing and after being sentenced to death. . Papadopoulos waived most of his rights to appeal under his agreement, which he negotiated with the Special Council Office last year.

Judge Moss also said Sunday that Papadopoulos would have had no reasonable expectation of success in a protracted judicial challenge from Mueller's authority, a factor that played into his decision against Trump's unique trump volunteer.

The first night of Papadopoulos in the historic federal building, three hours from the loop, will offer the public a two-week break from its regular diet of social media publications about a case that is virtually over. He claims that Mueller made him a buddy in the investigation in Russia, that he was a victim of a conspiracy of the government and that it was set up by strategists of the Foreign intelligence to take the fall because he was a naive newcomer to American politics.

Oxford Prison is a legendary place of residence for Chicago offenders, ranging from alderman and corrupt thugs to crooked businessmen and drug traffickers. All wanted to be locked up near their homes to speed up visits to loved ones.

Although Papadopoulos was the first employee of the Trump campaign to face federal charges as part of the investigation conducted in Russia, he will not be the first associate of the time of Trump to make the difference. There are several – including Trump's most senior prisoner at the hands of Mueller's special council office, former campaign president, Paul Manafort – although he was convicted and pleaded guilty to separate cases involving money laundering and bank fraud unrelated to the campaign, the investigation of Russia or the Trump campaign.