Hello on this unseasonably warm October morning from the federal courthouse in DC, where Richard Pinedo — the California man who pleaded guilty in connection with Mueller's Russian troll farm case — is due for sentencing. Refresher: buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg… 
Pinedo pleaded guilty to selling bank account #s set up under other people's names so his customers could get around PayPal security features. Prosecutors allege some of his customers were Russians using PayPal to finance election interferece (no allegation that Pinedo knew that)
PInedo is asking for no jail time — in his sentencing memo, his lawyer wrote that Pinedo had cooperated with the special counsel's office, and feared for his safety. Document: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4946…
Prosecutors didn't ask for a specific sentence in their memo: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4946… They said Pinedo's crime was serious, but they acknowledged his "significant assistance"
