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Excerpts from Patten's statement of the offense, describing both the inauguration tickets scheme and Patten lying to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about it.
Although he was prosecuted by the US Attorney in DC and DOJ's National Security Division, Samuel Patten's plea agreement expressly includes his agreement to cooperate with the Mueller investigation too.
For posterity, here are today's principal documents on W. Samuel Patten.

Information: documentcloud.org/documents/4806…

Statement of the Offense: documentcloud.org/documents/4806…

Plea Agreement: documentcloud.org/documents/4806…
The Special Counsel's Office took a very active role in Patten's case, signing a proffer agreement with him in May of this year and agreeing to be bound by the plea agreement today. Worth pondering: Why refer it out for the plea?
interesting technical feature of this plea: There are no sentencing guidelines for a FARA violation, and Patten and the govt agree that there's nothing comparable... so he'll be going into sentencing more uncertain than most cooperators as to what he'll get up to the 5y maximum.
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The wording: “these occurrences happened during a period when Mr. Manafort was managing a U.S. presidential campaign”
Maloni’s ‘clarification’ would harmonize this Madrid trip to meet Kilimnik with one referred to in another filing from the Special Counsel, though; on October 31, 2017, they wrote Manafort had been to Madrid ”within the last year.” cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2017/image…
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You can copy the black highlighted “redactions” in the Manafort team’s filing, paste it somewhere else, and see what it says. Here’s the first one. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
The sentence @jonswaine reported is in the second redaction.
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Here's a thread to break this doc down:
In January 2017, Patten solicited a U.S. citizen to serve as a straw purchaser in a transaction that would conceal the purchase of tickets to Trump’s inauguration by a foreign individual.
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"...that it could not accept money from foreigners but foreigners could attend the event so long as they did not provide the funds.”
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