# How many of Trump's administration and campaign aids have been convicted currently?
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**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 21, 2019, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-trumps-administration-and-campaign-aids-have-been-convicted-currently/843788 "2019-11-21T18:10:50Z")
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### Author:  [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2019, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-trumps-administration-and-campaign-aids-have-been-convicted-currently/843788/1 "2019-11-21T18:10:50Z")
I realize it’s a highly charged political topic, but there’s a clear objective non refutable number.
I was wondering what it is.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-trumps-administration-and-campaign-aids-have-been-convicted-currently/843788/2 "2019-11-21T18:22:14Z")
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2019, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-trumps-administration-and-campaign-aids-have-been-convicted-currently/843788/3 "2019-11-22T08:32:07Z")
Well, let’s everybody chime in with the names we can think of, and collectively compile a list. Or, alternatively, just Google it? Very first cite I get is this: (Well, okay, I didn’t Google it. I DuckDuckGo’ed it. We need a verb for that.)
Mattha Busby asks exactly the same question in this article in The Guardian, a little over a year ago: [How many of Donald Trump’s advisers have been convicted?](http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/22/how-many-of-trumps-close-advisers-have-been-convicted-and-who-are-they)
He lists five (remember, this is from about a year ago):
[ul][li] Paul Manafort[/li][li] Michael Cohen[/li][li] Michael Flynn[/li][li] Rick Gates[/li][li] George Papadopoulos[/ul][/li]Then he also mentions Alex van der Zwaan, making six. I guess he wasn’t close enough to Trump to count as one of the “five”.
To which we now add the recently nailed His Contemptibleness Roger Stone.
Anyone have any other names to add to the list, to date, that I’m missing here?
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2019, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-trumps-administration-and-campaign-aids-have-been-convicted-currently/843788/4 "2019-11-22T08:56:37Z")
A little further DuckDuckGoing turns up two more obscure convicts who, though not involved with Trump, got tangentially caught up in Mueller’s investigation. Raw Story picks up this article, which I noticed at a few other places too:
[Here are all the people who have been indicted, pleaded guilty, or convicted in Mueller’s Trump-Russia probe](https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/people-indicted-pleaded-guilty-convicted-muellers-trump-russia-probe/) (Note this is also from about a year ago):
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> SAMUEL PATTEN
> An American business partner of a Russian national accused by Mueller’s office of ties to Russian intelligence, Patten pleaded guilty on Aug. 31, 2018, to unregistered lobbying for a pro-Kremlin political party in Ukraine. He agreed to cooperate with investigators. Although the case against him was not brought by Mueller, it was referred by his office.
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> RICHARD PINEDO
> Pinedo was not involved with the Trump campaign, but in February he pleaded guilty to identity fraud in a case related to the Mueller probe for helping Russian conspirators launder money, purchase Facebook ads and pay for supplies. He was sentenced in October 2018 to one year of incarceration and allowed to serve half the sentence at home.
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### Author:  [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2019, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-trumps-administration-and-campaign-aids-have-been-convicted-currently/843788/5 "2019-11-22T10:43:58Z")
Konstantin Kilimnik: Charged with obstruction of justice
Roger Stone: Convicted of lying to Congress
Alex van der Zwaan: Served 30 days in prison for lying to investigators
Bijan Kian and Skim Alptekin: Charged with conspiring to violate lobbying laws
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2019, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-trumps-administration-and-campaign-aids-have-been-convicted-currently/843788/6 "2019-11-22T12:46:19Z")
> [@Senegoid](#):
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> Well, let’s everybody chime in with the names we can think of, and collectively compile a list. Or, alternatively, just Google it? Very first cite I get is this: (Well, okay, I didn’t Google it. I DuckDuckGo’ed it. We need a verb for that.)
>
> Mattha Busby asks exactly the same question in this article in The Guardian, a little over a year ago: [How many of Donald Trump’s advisers have been convicted?](http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/22/how-many-of-trumps-close-advisers-have-been-convicted-and-who-are-they)
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> He lists five (remember, this is from about a year ago):
> [ul][li] Paul Manafort[/li][li] Michael Cohen[/li][li] Michael Flynn[/li][li] Rick Gates[/li][li] George Papadopoulos[/ul][/li]Then he also mentions Alex van der Zwaan, making six. I guess he wasn’t close enough to Trump to count as one of the “five”.
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> To which we now add the recently nailed His Contemptibleness Roger Stone.
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> Anyone have any other names to add to the list, to date, that I’m missing here?
I believe that’s the full list of actual convictions. Various other people and businesses have indictments against them (mostly Russian) but haven’t gone to court (mostly because they’re Russian).
However, let’s not forget [George Nader](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Nader_(businessman)), who was technically peripheral to the Trump campaign as he was basically just a go-between for Erik Prince, Russians and various UAE bigwigs. Nader already has a criminal record for various child sex charges but was arrested again last June for child pornography charges, including having videos on his phone of children having sex with animals. Only the best people!