Former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos reported to a federal prison in Oxford, Wisconsin, Monday after a federal judge rejected his last-minute bid to delay his two-week sentence.
Papadopoulos was sentenced in September for lying to the FBI in the Russia investigation. He had sought a postponement of his prison term until an appeals court had ruled in a separate case challenging the constitutionality of special counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment.
But in a 13-page opinion Sunday, U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss said Papadopoulos waited too long to contest his sentence. Moss noted that Papadopoulos agreed not to appeal in most circumstances as part of his plea agreement, and the judge said the challenge to Mueller’s appointment was unlikely to be successful in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Papadopoulos had filed an initial motion on Nov. 16, nearly two months after the deadline for appealing his conviction or sentence. He followed up with a request to delay his sentence pending that motion on Nov. 21, the day before Thanksgiving.
“Papadopoulos waited until the eleventh hour to seek relief; indeed, he did not file his second motion — the stay request — until the last business day before he was scheduled to surrender to serve his sentence,” Moss’ order…
