Ex-Trump adviser, Greek-American George Papadopoulos, sentenced

George Papadopoulos, a Greek-American foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, was sentenced to 14 days in jail for lying to investigators about his contacts with a UK professor peddling dirt from Russian officials about Hillary Clinton.

Papadopoulos in October became the first person to plead guilty in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. He's the second defendant to be sentenced, after lawyer Alex van der Zwaan got 30 days behind bars.

Papadopoulos reportedly played a key role in sparking the FBI's probe of Trump's contacts with Russia when, during a night of heavy drinking in a London bar in May 2016, he told an Australian diplomat that Russia had dirt on Clinton, according to the New York Times. The FBI, tipped off by the Australians, began looking into the matter.

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