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  1. Former Drumpf campaign aide Rick Gates was sentenced Tuesday to 45 days in jail, a departure from a probation sentence that prosecutors said he deserved in exchange for being a key witness in the Russia investigation. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said the jail sentence would be intermittent, with Gates spending weekends behind bars. Gates will also be on 36 months of probation, was ordered to pay $20,000 in fines, and must spend 300 hours in community service. Jackson said Gates' cooperation with prosecutors was "an important public service." Gates testified in "three cases already and maybe more, sometimes against friends and former colleagues and partners. ... He was forthcoming about his own lies and wrongdoing," Jackson said. But the judge said a short incarceration is "appropriate," saying she has seen defendants from less privileged backgrounds spend more time behind bars for lesser crimes.
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