When a prosecutor pulls the plug on a cooperator because that cooperator lies, it typically happens not merely because the prosecutor senses in his gut that the cooperator is lying.
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Every plea agreement in federal court requires the cooperator to be "truthful;" again, the government decides if it is, and also, initially whether a cooperator will get any credit at all.
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It's not even a surprise who your central cooperator is.
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Explore resources like the New York Cooperator and Habitat Magazine.
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The cooperator, George Nader, also reportedly attended the Seychelles meeting.
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However, copying a cooperator gives rise to random walks of upstream reciprocity.
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"There is another cooperator here and it is Rick Gates," Honig said.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller has gotten a cooperator in the Russia investigation.
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Previously, Manafort was suspected to be the star cooperator in the Russia probe.
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The White House considered him to be a rather hardline cooperator with Khrushchev.
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But Mueller leaves the impression he may have a cooperator inside the troll factory.
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Manafort had become a Mueller cooperator, before lying to him and tanking that deal.
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" The cooperator responded from the witness stand, "You got something to say to me?
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Some viewed it as a likely blow to Mueller — after all, he's lost a cooperator.
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The cooperator is George Nader, an adviser to the government of the United Arab Emirates.
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Stone, perhaps more than any cooperator I've dealt with, has based his identity on dishonesty.
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The big picture is that it looks like Gates has been Mueller's star cooperator so far.
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Mueller also secured an obscure cooperator in Sam Patten, a GOP operative and former Manafort associate.
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He said he's been "largely unemployed" since he became a cooperator with Mueller in February 2018.
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In late 2017, he became an early and major cooperator in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
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The Saudi official said the local cooperator is an Istanbul resident but would not reveal his nationality.
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Per the Washington Post, it turns out that Mueller has a new cooperator in the Russia probe.
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The SDNY requires a cooperator to admit everything he has ever done or known about, without limitation.
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But the question is not whether a cooperator is likeable; it is whether they can be believed.
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They previously recommended only probation, but that was largely hinged upon Flynn's role as a model cooperator.
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Once a plea deal is in place, Gates would become the third known cooperator in Mueller's probe.
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The cooperator then walked with the FBI agents in the woods and showed them where to dig.
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The cooperator does not get to choose what information he gives to prosecutors or who he cooperates against.
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The cooperator benefits if the sentencing judge learns about all his cooperation -- and the more cooperation, the better.
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Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017, becoming an early and key cooperator in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
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He just asked for an extension to keep working with arguably his most important remaining cooperator through March.
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It's all part of a long turn for Flynn from being a key Mueller cooperator to a hostile defendant.
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He was also a key cooperator in the Mueller investigation, and his testimony was heavily cited in the report.
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The plea deal instantly turned him into the person whom many believed would be the Mueller investigation's star cooperator.
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Many other prosecutors, however, will sign up a defendant as a cooperator if he satisfactorily answers certain limited questions.
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He was not called to testify against Craig, but his longtime deputy Rick Gates, also a Mueller cooperator, was.
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The revelations add some nuance around Flynn's time as a cooperator and raise several new questions about Mueller's obstruction probe.
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The defense team is still trying to pick away at longtime Manafort deputy and special counsel cooperator Rick Gates' credibility.
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Jared Hernandez of the Navy, called "Guantánamo's sole high-value cooperator" and can be sentenced to 25 years of confinement.
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She will eventually sentence Manafort's co-conspirator Rick Gates as well, who's become a key, long-term cooperator of Mueller's.
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Mueller noted that he and other prosecutors met with Flynn 19 times -- an enormous quantity for any cooperator, in my experience.
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But whether Mueller views Cohen as a key target, a potential cooperator, or a minor player of little importance remains unclear.
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The Covington attorneys helped to win the most lenient support from prosecutors for Flynn compared to any cooperator in the Mueller investigation.
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Saudi officials also needed to reveal the identity of a local cooperator said to have been involved in Khashoggi's disappearance, he said.
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The decision to cooperate is made by the cooperator himself after extensive consultation with experienced defense counsel about the benefits and risks.
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Prosecutors understand the cooperator might be vulnerable, based not only on the behavior they've engaged in, but perhaps the way they testify.
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Mueller's team told a federal judge their well-known cooperator deserved no jail time because he had contributed substantially to ongoing investigations.
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"It may be that this doesn't connect directly to Russia, but rather that Mueller sees Cohen as a potential cooperator," Rocah said.
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Sullivan had put off sentencing in December so Flynn might win more law enforcement goodwill as a cooperator testifying against his lobbying partner.
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The newly unsealed parts of Flynn's case also highlight how important it was that he became an early, well-known cooperator with Mueller.
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More than 90 percent of federal criminal jury trials result in a conviction and many of those trials rely heavily on cooperator testimony.
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"One good cooperator can at least give you some good lay of the land, and two can give you even more," Honig said.
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On Thursday, the Saudi public prosecutor said Khashoggi was killed by lethal injection, then dismembered and handed over to an unidentified "local cooperator".
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Top cooperator Gates, for instance, will be dealing with a new group of prosecutors for his still-unscheduled sentencing in DC District Court.
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While Doss viewed himself not as a conscientious objector, but a conscientious cooperator, his fellow infantrymen and superiors did not see it that way.
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For an example of this vetting process in action, look no further than Paul Manafort, who flamed out as a cooperator earlier this week.
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A cooperator, or even a series of cooperators, is nothing more than a hitless first inning, given that humans are notoriously biased and unreliable.
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Manafort, though he has not made public statements since his plea, was thought to be the star cooperator in the special counsel's ongoing probe.
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But Ms. Khan may turn out to be the one cooperator in the Galleon case who succeeds in landing a second act in life.
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"In most businesses and white-collar cases, the government really needs a cooperator to explain events," said Jack Sharman, a former Whitewater special counsel.
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Mr. Flynn was a key cooperator who helped the Justice Department with several investigations, prosecutors for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, said.
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When federal prosecutors subpoena somebody or enlist that person as a cooperator, the US Marshals take responsibility for protecting the person and his family.
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In a plea agreement to a single count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, Lei escaped any prison sentence by becoming a government cooperator.
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Washington (CNN)Rick Gates' former trial attorney says the ex-Trump campaign staffer and Mueller investigation cooperator stiffed the law firm of almost $370,000.
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At the time of his guilty plea, he became a key cooperator in the Mueller investigation, and also helped prosecutors build their case against Kian.
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Saudi public prosecutor Shalaan al-Shalaan said on Thursday that Khashoggi's body was dismembered, removed from the building and handed to an unidentified "local cooperator".
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In doing so, he became an early cooperator in an investigation that has spun off criminal cases now in the hands of other federal prosecutors.
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The Turks added that the Saudi prosecutor also said no statement had been made by Saudi authorities about the existence of the purported local cooperator.
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A prosecutor needs to be able to present a cooperator to a jury as an open book who has confessed everything he has ever done.
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But now, with the New York state charges, it is likely Mueller will get his man and the cooperator he long has sought to cultivate.
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In the Mueller investigation, Nader had become a key cooperator and had given extensive information about his contact with a Russian and the Trump campaign.
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The FBI agents on the case got permission from a judge to take that cooperator out of jail temporarily and drove him up to Agawam.
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The Toronto Star's Daniel Dale reports that when prosecutors consider someone to be a "proactive cooperator," it could signal that that person was wearing a wire.
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More often, the prosecutor knows for a fact that the cooperator is lying because the prosecutor has hard evidence to prove the truth of the matter.
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The efforts of the cooperator, who is now 29, went beyond merely telling the government what he knew about ISIS's field techniques and its propaganda tactics.
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Once a plea deal is in place, Gates would become the third known cooperator in Mueller's sprawling probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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These meetings later fell under the shadow of the Russia investigation, and Nader became an important cooperator for special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling.
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Once a plea deal is in place, Gates would become yet another known cooperator in Mueller's sprawling probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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Mueller's team also noted that Papadopoulos is working with the investigation as a "proactive cooperator," which means he could be providing important information to Mueller's team.
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"Public disclosure of of the defendant's initial appearance, however, would significantly undermine his ability to serve as a proactive cooperator," prosecutors wrote in the motion to seal.
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Federal cooperation is an all-or-nothing proposition; the cooperator must tell the prosecutor everything he knows about any crime that he or anybody else has committed.
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Manafort, who worked on the campaign for five months before stepping down from his role in August 2016, is seen as a key cooperator in Mueller's investigation.
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And, at times during those cases, Jackson stepped in to protect Gates when she felt defense attorneys had gone too far in tangling with the government cooperator.
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Gates remains an important cooperator with ongoing federal investigations, including with some matters that are still secret and could result in future criminal trials, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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Gates's high-level role in planning the inauguration planning committee makes him a potentially valuable cooperator there as well, though his specific role in that probe is unclear.
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He pleaded guilty in December 2017, becoming a significant cooperator for special counsel Robert Mueller, especially in the investigation of possible obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump.
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Legal analysts view Cohen as a valuable cooperator who can shed light on Trump's business dealings as Mueller looks to better understand any ties he has to Russia.
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So Trump is not just assaulting the special counsel's cooperator; Trump is contradicting Mueller, and maybe even hinting that Mueller is intentionally offering the testimony of a liar.
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He became a model cooperator against the President in Mueller's investigation, but last summer he appeared to switch his approach and has sought to unravel his plea deal.
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The special counsel's office added a second potential cooperator against Manafort in late August when another lobbyist for Ukrainians, Sam Patten, pleaded guilty to a foreign lobbying charge.
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The source said the whereabouts of Khashoggi's body were unclear after it was handed over to a "local cooperator" but there was no sign of it at the consulate.
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Manafort was viewed as a key cooperator with U.S. government investigators because of his visibility into the Trump campaign and information he could offer in related foreign lobbying investigations.
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He also said the whereabouts of Khashoggi's body were still unknown and he demanded Saudi Arabia to reveal the identity of a "local cooperator" who purportedly took the body.
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It seemed as if Mueller now had a cooperator who had close ties to both Trump and Russia (Manafort worked for Ukraine's pro-Russian political faction for many years).
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This makes sense, since any such cooperation would always involve the prosecution team fully debriefing a cooperator about any and all information that could be relevant to the investigation.
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The special counsel's office added a second potential cooperator against Manafort two weeks ago when another lobbyist for the Ukrainians, Sam Patten, pleaded guilty to a foreign lobbying charge.
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And unlike cooperator George Papadopoulos, he actually had a high-level job there, which had him work quite closely with the person running the campaign for several months: Manafort.
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And unlike cooperator George Papadopoulos, he actually had a high-level job there which had him work quite closely with the person running the campaign for several months: Manafort.
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Manafort was thought to be the star cooperator in the special counsel's ongoing probe into potential collusion between Russian operatives and Trump associates during the 2016 presidential campaign and transition.
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Erdogan has said Khashoggi's killing was ordered by the highest level of Saudi leadership and has repeatedly called on Saudi officials to identify a "local cooperator" involved in the killing.
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The most traditional use is the calling of a cooperator at a co-defendant's trial to give testimony, which is how the government used Rick Gates in Manafort's first trial.
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Judge Weinstein had scholars of Islamic extremism testify about factors that might push the cooperator to return to the jihadist life — and those that might keep him from doing so.
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It seemed that Mueller had been trying to get Manafort to "flip" for quite a while, and had finally achieved his aim — landing him a cooperator close to the president himself.
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Another cooperator in the Mueller investigation, lobbyist W. Samuel Patten, also had contact with Kilimnik through 20173, as they secured tickets to the Trump inauguration for a paying Ukrainian oligarch client.
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In Manafort, the newest cooperator, the special counsel has a window into the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between top campaign aides and a lawyer with connections to the Russian government.
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It was also revealed Papadopoulos was a "proactive cooperator" in the Russia probe, meaning he had been working with Mueller and his team after they caught him lying to the FBI.
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Footage from the police report shown on Turkish televisions showed a man believed to be a Khashoggi impersonator walking alongside a man police say is the "local cooperator" in the case.
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His sentencing Friday made clear he had barely been a cooperator in the investigation, yet had serious contact with Russia's affiliates in Europe as they tried to lure the Trump campaign.
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Yet prosecutors said this week that they would no longer use Flynn as a cooperator at the trial, which begins next week, because his legal team was changing what he would say.
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Without exception, every one of these agents has told the government that Sater was an exemplary cooperator who worked diligently to further the aims of the missions to which he was assigned.
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At Lyft, by contrast, Green has been more of a cooperator than a bull-in-a-china-shop disruptor, working with authorities rather than challenging them and earning social bragging rights, too.
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"He would obviously be a problematic cooperator because he has a lot of baggage and credibility issues," said Elie Honig, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
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It seemed as if Mueller now had a cooperator who had close ties to both Trump and Russia (the latter because Manafort worked for Ukraine's pro-Russian political faction for many years).
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All of the parents were caught in recorded phone calls with the college consultant that prosecutors say was at the center of the conspiracy, William Singer, who had become a government cooperator.
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Washington (CNN)Paul Manafort "intentionally" lied to special counsel Robert Mueller's office, breaking the plea agreement that made him the star cooperator in the Russia probe, a federal judge found on Wednesday.
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A cooperator will often go through several different stories before finding something close to the what the government calls "the truth" ("the truth" being defined here as what the government believes happened).
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According to the senior Saudi official, the Saudi team rolled up Khashoggi's body in a rug, took it out in a consular vehicle and handed it to a "local cooperator" for disposal.
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His unlikely cameo as a government cooperator testifying against the same gang that gave him street credibility with hip-hop fans and helped boost him to stardom provided prosecutors with a compelling narrative.
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Giuliani attended the same party, as did Felix Sater, a former executive at the Trump Organization who had a double life as a convicted criminal and a high-level cooperator for the CIA.
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In the SDNY, however, cooperation is all-or-nothing: a cooperator must tell prosecutors everything he knows about his own conduct and the conduct of others, including on the charged crimes and everything else.
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Shalaan said that de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman knew nothing of the operation, in which Khashoggi's body was dismembered, removed from the building and handed over to an unidentified "local cooperator".
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Oberlander and Lerner said the government improperly permitted Sater to use his status as a secret cooperator to commit new crimes and avoid paying restitution to past victims, who are owed millions of dollars.
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She is a daughter of Victoria A. Chesler and Matthew R. Kovner of Olivebridge N.Y. The bride's parents co-founded The Cooperator, a monthly magazine about co-ops and condominiums published in New York.
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He had long been a target of federal investigators and Mueller's team -- and was expected to be a star cooperator in Mueller's probe when he pleaded guilty last September following a conviction at trial.
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Erdogan also said Riyadh needs to disclose the identity of the "local cooperator" who purportedly took Khashoggi's body from Saudi agents after the journalist was killed at the consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.
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The deal resolves all the pending charges against Manafort, effectively clearing the decks for both him and the Mueller investigation, moving the probe into a new phase, and delivering its highest-profile cooperator yet.
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"There could be new reporting, a cooperator in another district, or a case that comes forward -- so why declare 'case over' and air all of your evidence when something else could happen in the future?"
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Indeed, as our experience prosecuting organized crime cases taught us, cooperator testimony is often the only path to hold accountable those more responsible for these crimes who often insulate themselves from the core criminal activity.
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In court papers, prosecutors have said prematurely making the case public would hurt his ability to be a "proactive cooperator," which legal experts say could include surreptitious techniques like wearing a microphone to record conversations.
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Manafort is also known for admitting to illegal foreign lobbying for Ukraine and several financial crimes during the Mueller investigation, then flaming out as a Mueller cooperator after lying to investigators and a grand jury.
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As a cooperator, Flynn was slated to testify against Kian at trial, but those plans fell apart at the last moment after a public and heated falling-out between Flynn's new lawyers and the prosecutors.
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"He is either still working with [Mueller] or is perceived to be of potential value or even as a cooperator at a trial in the future," said Jack Sharman, a former Whitewater special counsel to Congress.
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A star witness Gates was a top official on both the Trump campaign and during the inauguration, and became perhaps Mueller's most important cooperator as the special counsel's office looked into Russian influence in Trump's operation.
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Saudi officials have rejected accusations that the crown prince ordered his murder in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, in which Khashoggi's body was dismembered, removed from the building and handed over to an unidentified "local cooperator".
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Sater told the podcast that his work as a cooperator with the FBI and CIA followed a criminal past that included a bar fight and financial crimes, for which he said he was trying to make amends.
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Saudi prosecutors said last week that the crown prince, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, knew nothing of the operation, in which Khashoggi's body was dismembered, removed from the building and handed over to an unidentified "local cooperator".
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Prosecutors have written that Donald Trump himself directed the payments—an indication that they have solid documentary evidence that hasn't become public yet—and have apparently lined up nearly every other participant in the scheme as a cooperator.
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As Mueller escalated on Monday, indicting Trump's former campaign boss and one of his deputies, while also revealing he'd made a "proactive cooperator" out of a foreign policy adviser to the campaign, Democrats mostly kept their heads down.
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The kingdom, Erdogan added, also must reveal the identity of the "local cooperator" whom Saudi officials earlier said had taken charge of Khashoggi's body from Saudi agents after his killing inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.
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Erdogan also said Riyadh needed to reveal the identity of the "local cooperator" who Saudi officials earlier said had taken Khashoggi's body from Saudi agents after the journalist was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.
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But the public did see the classic cooperator dynamic in play: One man swears to what the other vehemently denies, feelings of betrayal and mutual resentment boil to the surface and the stakes are at an all-time high.
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The young Trump campaign aide has been described as a "proactive cooperator" by investigators, a sign he's being used by Mueller's team to form a case against other aides — including former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was indicted on Monday.
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Patten had worked for some of the same Ukrainian political clients as former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and became part of the intensive effort of Mueller's team to investigate and ultimately flip the former Trump campaign chairman into a cooperator.
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"The recent indictment against Joaquín's two sons smacks of a concerted attempt by the government to paint the entire family as being involved in criminal activity when the only evidence they have of it is based on cooperator testimony," he said.
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In this lightly adapted excerpt from Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal, the small team of federal prosecutors and agents from the IRS and FBI begin their work with Blazer, their crucial first cooperator.
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Turkish officials suspect the body of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and critic of powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was cut up but the Saudi official said it was rolled up in a rug and given to a "local cooperator" for disposal.
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The prosecutor's statement said Fidan also repeated Ankara's request for the 18 suspects to be extradited to face trial in Turkey, and asked Mojeb to disclose the identity of a "local cooperator" who, according to a Saudi official, disposed of Khashoggi's body.
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" That process allows prosecutors to "fully assess the candor, culpability and complications attendant to any potential cooperator, and results in cooperating witnesses who, having accepted full responsibility for any and all misconduct, are credible to law enforcement and, hopefully, to judges and juries.
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As we know from the prosecution of Michael Cohen for campaign finance law violations, prosecutors in the Southern District will give coveted "cooperator" status only to defendants who are willing to discuss every instance of criminal wrongdoing in which they were involved or know about.
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Jubeir also said the Saudis did not know where Khashoggi's body was, though one of the Saudi officials had told Reuters it was wrapped up in a rug, taken out of the consulate in a vehicle and handed over to a "local cooperator" for disposal.
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Winning a case with a cooperator as open to attack as Mr. Davis shows that the key evidence is often the combination of exceptional timing and some contact between the insider and the trader — at least when there are no recordings of information being passed.
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It does not actually seem to have been aimed at prosecutors, because the near-universal advice for someone in Cohen's position is to say as little as possible publicly — prosecutors don't like it when a potential cooperator leaks what they have to the media beforehand.
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The gist: The latest prestige drama directed by Mel Gibson fictionalizes the real-life story of Desmond Doss, a "conscientious cooperator" who willingly joined the Army in 1942, requesting to serve as a medic, because his religious beliefs prevented him from using a weapon or harming others.
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Now suspicious co-defendants, or friends of those who believe they have been sent to prison with evidence supplied by a "cooperator," can, with a bit of googling, access information in case files that may reveal what deals have been made with prosecutors and blessed by trial judges.
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Then-deputy campaign manager Rick Gates, a top Mueller cooperator, recounted that Trump Jr. believed the information would come from a group in Kyrgyzstan -- potentially a reference to Aras Agalarov, Emin Agalarov's father and the Azerbaijani-Russian who helped to orchestrate the meeting, according to the special counsel.
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"The normal practice, of course, is that a prosecutor will hold off a sentencing until, say, a trial of another potential target because a prosecutor wants to keep that cooperator on the straight and narrow," said Jack Sharman, a former special counsel to Congress for the Whitewater investigation.
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"I think it still has to be the case that if you engage in a form of public corruption, you must understand that you go to jail," Judge Jed S. Rakoff said in 2012 as he sentenced a former lobbyist-turned cooperator to three months in a bribery case.
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Gates gave Mueller the goods On January 29, 2018, the Mueller investigation got what it had been working for: a high-ranking Trump campaign cooperator who could attest to Paul Manafort's Ukraine-related crimes and explain some of the most suspicious dynamics of the Trump campaign in 2016.
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George Nader, who has for decades hobnobbed with political elites and became a key Mueller cooperator, and Allied Wallet CEO Ahmad "Andy" Khawaja are accused of sending millions to political committees and hiding Nader as its source, with Nader allegedly reporting to a Middle Eastern government on the effort.
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Billed upfront as "a true story," throwing the wishy-washy "based on/inspired by" to the wind, Hacksaw Ridge stars Andrew Garfield as Desmond Doss, a conscientious objector (though he'd prefer "conscientious cooperator") who refused to carry a gun into the hell that was the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.
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"Michael Cohen's public statements Monday and other recent signs strongly suggest that Trump's longtime consigliere will seek to 'flip' on the president, becoming a government cooperator and potential star witness," former White House ethics lawyer Norman Eisen and two other criminal law experts wrote in in a joint OpEd in The Washington Post on Tuesday.
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Read: Judge rules on Manafort plea deal Jackson's ruling is another stunning turn in Mueller's efforts to uncover Russian interference in the 2016 election, as the first man the special counsel indicted then pursued as a potential cooperator for a year sees the end of any benefits he tried to gain through a guilty plea.
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Additionally, Mueller's team gained another cooperator whose past work intersected with Gates and Manafort: lobbyist Sam Patten, who admitted to illegally securing Trump inauguration tickets for a Russian connected to Manafort and to the same military intelligence unit that allegedly hacked Democrats and for a powerful pro-Russia Ukrainian who was close to Manafort.
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Years earlier, when faced with a slew of charges, Rubin became a cooperator and helped the government take down Charles M. Hallinan, the so-called godfather of payday lending, a lawyer who worked for both men, and Scott Tucker, a loan mogul who drove a race car and was featured in the Netflix series Dirty Money.
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"She was my love, my heart, my best friend, my teacher, my rebel, my angel, my protector, my challenger, my partner, my muse, my wizard, my surprise, my gift, my comet, my liberator, my rock star, my completely impossible non-cooperator, my otherworldly visitor, my spiritual portal, and my baby," Gilbert wrote on Instagram after Elias' passing last year.
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Washington (CNN)Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson took several minutes during her sentencing of top Mueller cooperator Rick Gates on Tuesday to comment on the Russia investigation, the significance of Gates' choice to cooperate and the gravity of the facts that investigators found regarding Gates' and Paul Manafort's crimes and Russian's interaction with the Trump campaign.
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Mark Lee, a white collar defense lawyer and former federal prosecutor, said that with a cooperator as high up in the chain as Flynn, Mueller's team will be taking the time to make sure they've learned all they can from him, as well as to consult with him on any information they're getting from interviews with other individuals and other evidence.
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"She was my love, my heart, my best friend, my teacher, my rebel, my angel, my protector, my challenger, my partner, my muse, my wizard, my surprise, my gift, my comet, my liberator, my rock star, my completely impossible non-cooperator, my otherworldly visitor, my spiritual portal, and my baby," Gilbert wrote along with a photo of Elias happily playing guitar.
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Rick Gates, Manafort's longtime deputy and a cooperator secured by Mueller, also testified last week about the "master control grid" spreadsheet he and Hawker kept about shaping coverage of the report's release in the US. Craig's interactions with Sanger -- including delivering a copy of the Tymoshenko report to Sanger's house -- are central to whether Craig needed to register as a foreign lobbyist for Ukraine in 2012.
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Tom Cotton says he floated the idea of buying Greenland to TrumpStar Mueller cooperator Rick Gates back in court to testify against former White House counsel Friday: White House continues bipartisan gun control talks after confusing weekDavid Koch, billionaire businessman and influential GOP donor, diesTrump immigration official says new rule detaining families indefinitely is a 'deterrent' And that was the week in 16 headlines.
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