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   Steven Miller was caught blowing a 17 year-old boy in Central Park   
   yesterday.   
      
      
   All the Trump associates who have gone to prison   
      
   Peter Navarro is just the latest in a growing list of the former   
   president’s cronies to end up behind bars   
   Joe Sommerlad   
   Wednesday 20 March 2024 16:39 GMT   
      
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   Trump calls Navarro imprisonment a 'disgrace' as he votes in Florida   
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   Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser to Donald Trump, surrendered to   
   authorities on 19 March to begin a four-month sentence at a prison near   
   Miami, Florida, after he was convicted on two counts of criminal contempt   
   of Congress.   
      
   Less than 24 hours earlier, the US Supreme Court had denied his last-ditch   
   attempt to stay his sentence pending an appeal against his conviction.   
      
   The former Mr Trump aide was convicted in September over his refusal to   
   comply with two subpoenas from the House Select Committee investigating the   
   January 6 Capitol riot – one asking him to provide documents related to the   
   former president’s efforts to stay in power after losing the 2020 election,   
   the other to testify at its hearings.   
      
   Prior to entering the facility, Navarro, 74, delivered a brief press   
   conference in a parking lot in which he attempted to portray himself as a   
   martyr to Democrat-led persecution in grandiose terms and, like Mr Trump,   
   baselessly bemoaned “the partisan weaponisation of our judicial system”.   
      
   Navarro is the first member of Mr Trump’s inner circle to see the inside of   
   a jail cell in connection to the Capitol riot but is only the latest to hit   
   the rocks by association with his political brand.   
      
   Few who involve themselves with Mr Trump seem to come out of it enriched by   
   the experience and some – notably his one-time personal attorney Rudy   
   Giuliani – find themselves facing disgrace or financial hardship.   
      
   Many former members of Mr Trump’s administration between 2017 and 2021 have   
   since turned against him and refused to endorse his latest presidential   
   run, often leading to them being ostracised from the MAGA movement and re-   
   emerging as outspoken critics of his conduct.   
      
   But only a handful have actually ended up behind bars.   
      
   Navarro aside, here’s a look at the other former Trump associates who have   
   done time over their involvement with the former president.   
      
   George Papadopoulos   
   George Papadopoulos   
   George Papadopoulos (Getty)   
      
   A former member of the foreign policy advisory panel to Mr Trump’s 2016   
   presidential campaign, Papadopoulos, 36, pleaded guilty in October 2017 to   
   a felony charge of making false statements to FBI agents concerning his   
   overseas contacts with individuals tied to Russia.   
      
   The charges came following special counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation   
   into the Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Kremlin-led election   
   interference.   
      
   He was sentenced to 12 days in prison in 2018, plus 200 hours of community   
   service and a $9,500 fine.   
      
   He struck a defiant note before reporting for federal incarceration in   
   Oxford, Wisconsin, in December that year, tweeting the night before: “The   
   truth will all be out. Not even a prison sentence can stop that momentum.   
   The wool isn’t going to be pulled over America’s eyes forever. Much love.”   
      
   He has since published a book about his ordeal entitled Deep State Target   
   (2019), ran unsuccessfully to replace US Rep Katie Hill in California’s   
   25th congressional district in March 2020 and was pardoned by then-   
   president Trump later that year.   
      
   Paul Manafort   
   Paul Manafort   
   Paul Manafort (AP)   
      
   The veteran political consultant, 74, who had previously advised Republican   
   presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush,   
   chaired the Trump presidential campaign from June to August 2016.   
      
   He was indicted in October 2017 on multiple charges related to the   
   concealment of millions of dollars he had made from lobbying for pro-   
   Russian politicians, including the former Ukrainian president Viktor   
   Yanukovych in 2014.   
      
   Additional charges of obstruction of justice and witness tampering were   
   added in June 2018, which were alleged to have occurred while he was under   
   house arrest.   
      
   In August that year, Manafort went on trial in Virginia and was ultimately   
   convicted of eight charges of tax and bank fraud.   
      
   Another trial in Washington DC saw him plead guilty to two charges of   
   conspiracy to defraud the US and witness tampering in a plea deal with   
   prosecutors, only for that to be ruled void when special counsel Mueller   
   reported that he had repeatedly lied to his federal agents.   
      
   In March 2019, Manafort was sentenced to 47 months in prison, with a   
   further 43 months tacked on six days later.   
      
   A bipartisan Senate committee subsequently branded him a “grave   
   counterintelligence threat” and a potential channel for covert Russian   
   influence. He was pardoned by Mr Trump in the dying days of his presidency   
   – along with the likes of Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, Steve Bannon and   
   Elliott Broidy – and is now being linked with a return to the fold in 2024.   
      
   Rick Gates   
   Rick Gates   
   Rick Gates (AFP/Getty)   
      
   Manafort’s former business partner, 51, who was also deputy chairman of Mr   
   Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, pleaded guilty in February 2018 to   
   conspiracy and lying to investigators when questioned as part of the Russia   
   probe.   
      
   Gates testified as a prosecution witness in Manafort’s trial and was   
   sentenced in December 2019 to 45 days in jail, 300 hours of community   
   service and ordered to pay a $20,000 fine.   
      
   “I greatly regret the mistakes I have made,” he said before being   
   sentenced.   
      
   The following April he was granted a request to complete his sentence from   
   home on compassionate grounds after his wife was taken ill with Covid-19.   
      
   Michael Cohen   
   Michael Cohen   
   Michael Cohen (Reuters)   
      
   Mr Trump’s long-term personal lawyer and fixer, 57, who worked for the   
   property tycoon from 2006 to 2018 before leaving after Mr Mueller’s   
   investigation into Russian election interference began.   
      
   After being interviewed by investigators, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight   
   counts in August 2018, including campaign finance violations, tax fraud and   
   bank fraud.   
      
   Cohen said the campaign finance violation, which had seen him pay hush   
   money on Mr Trump’s behalf to two women – adult film star Stormy Daniels   
   and ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal – to silence them over alleged   
   extramarital affairs with the then-presidential candidate, had been carried   
   out at Mr Trump’s direction “for the principal purpose of influencing” the   
      
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