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Mueller Asks for 60-Day Postponement to File Gates Report

Robert Mueller needs 60 days more before seeking a sentencing date for Rick Gates’s guilty plea to conspiring to defraud the U.S.

Mueller Asks for 60-Day Postponement to File Gates Report
Robert Mueller speaks about an investigation into the use of so-called national security letters to collect data, at a news conference at the bureau’s headquarters. (Photographer: Dennis Brack/Bloomberg News)

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Rick Gates, who worked on President Donald Trump’s campaign and inauguration, asked a federal judge in Washington for another 60 days delay before seeking a sentencing date for Gates’s guilty plea to conspiring to defraud the U.S.

Gates continues to cooperate with respect to several ongoing investigations, Mueller and Gates said in court papers. They asked that they be allowed to file a report before May 14.

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To contact the editor responsible for this story: David Glovin at dglovin@bloomberg.net

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