Trump Campaign Aide Gates Gets Jail Time in Mueller Case

(Bloomberg) -- A former top Trump campaign aide who became a star witness for Special Counsel Robert Mueller must serve 45 days behind bars for his crimes despite prosecutors’ request that he be spared jail time.Rick Gates’s testimony helped convict Trump confidant Roger Stone and send former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to prison. At Gates’s sentencing on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington praised his work for the government but imposed a br