Mueller Gets Plea, No Cooperation, as Skadden Lawyer Admits Lies
Bloomberg Law is reporting that U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has extracted a guilty plea from a former associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom who admitted in court in Washington that he misled investigators in the Russian election meddling case.
Alex van der Zwaan admitted he misled investigators about the last time he talked with Rick Gates, who was indicted in October with Paul Manafort over their consulting work in Ukraine. But van der Zwaan was the first of those who didn’t enter into a cooperation agreement with the special counsel’s office, according to Bloomberg.
He faces as long as six months in jail under advisory guidelines.
Skadden said it terminated van der Zwaan’s employment in 2017 and has been cooperating with authorities.
Read the Bloomberg Law article.
