Gates will also pay a $20,000 fine and fulfill 300 hours of community service. He will be allowed to serve his jail sentence on weekends during his three years of probation.
A key cooperator in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation has begun testifying in the foreign lobbying trial of prominent Washington attorney Greg Craig.
The House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn and former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates as part of its investigation into Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 election.
Prosecutors in Paul Manafort's financial fraud trial say they expect to rest their case on Friday.
Rick Gates has finished his testimony in the financial fraud trial of his former boss, Paul Manafort, after one last effort by defense lawyers to erode his credibility.
The government's star witness in the trial of Paul Manafort admits he embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from the former Trump campaign chairman
Special counsel Robert Mueller's office says it plans to call 35 witnesses in the upcoming trial of President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman.
A federal judge has postponed until next week the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. The trial had been scheduled to start Wednesday in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.
Three people familiar with the probe tell the AP that Barrack met with federal investigators working on the Russia inquiry.
President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman is maintaining his innocence as he faces charges he acted as an unregistered foreign agent and directed an international money-laundering conspiracy.