Special counsel Robert Mueller is asking that George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, be sentenced in September on the false-statement felony charge he pleaded guilty to last fall.

In a court filing on Friday evening, Mueller’s prosecutors and defense attorneys in the case asked U.S. District Court Judge Randy Moss to set Papadopoulos’ sentencing for Sept. 7, or a date in October if the judge is unavailable.

If the hearing goes forward as scheduled, Papadopoulos could become the second defendant sentenced in Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

In April, Alex van der Zwaan, a Dutch attorney, was sentenced to 30 days in federal custody for the same charge: lying in the course of a federal investigation. Van der Zwaan admitted that he misled prosecutors about contacts related to work his law firm did as part of a campaign aimed at burnishing the image of Viktor Yanukovych, the president of Ukraine at the time.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/22/mueller-george-papadopoulos-sentencing-667169