George Papadopoulos

The 8,000 kilometers that separate Michigan in the United States from Thessaly in central Greece is no easy distance to cover, yet 52-year-old financial consultant George Papadopoulos has become accustomed to the long journey. It's been 30 years since he left his homeland to study in the US, where he stayed on to build a family and a successful career.

George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide who was a key figure in the FBI's Russia probe, filed paperwork Tuesday to run for the US House seat being vacated by Democrat Katie Hill.
Papadopoulos didn't immediately comment, but on Sunday he tweeted, "I love my state too much to see it run down by candidates like Hill. All talk, no action, and a bunch of sellouts."

George Papadopoulos' book has a bit of everything: secrets and stories from Donald Trump's campaign, where he worked, revelations about how even the most "difficult" ministries in Greece opened their doors wide, surveillance and spies from a number of countries and, of course, unknown details on how the search for Russian medding in the 2016 presidential election got under way.

A US federal judge on Sunday rejected a last-minute bid by former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos to delay his two-week prison term and ordered him to surrender Monday as scheduled.

Papadopoulos sought the delay until an appeals court had ruled in a separate case challenging the constitutionality of special counsel Robert Mueller's appointment.

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.

Lawyers for George Papadopoulos, a Greek-American aide in the Donald Trump presidential campaign, said in a court filing on Friday that he revealed to the Greek foreign minister in May 2016 that Russia had "dirt" on Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

He claimed the meeting took place a few days before Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Greece.

President Donald Trump "nodded with approval" at the suggestion of a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a court filing Friday night that seeks leniency for a former campaign aide who lied to the FBI.

Greek American George Papadopoulos, a former member of the foreign policy advisory panel to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, could face up to six months in jail.

In an interview with ABC News, former FBI director James Comey confirmed the significance of George Papadopoulos, the former aide to US President Donald Trump who was the spark for an investigation into the potential interference of Russia in the last US presidential elections.

The prospect of having a Greek American among US President Donald Trump's staff, even if he were to be just an aide in the broad sense of the term, provided a simple knee-jerk satisfaction and created expectations.