mr. pinedo, according to prosecutors, didn't help the russians directly with their actual propaganda and these sort of psychological operations they were running on behalf of trump, but he did help them indirectly. according to prosecutors, he helped them indirectly through his profitable little criminal hobby, which was basically online identity theft and bank fraud. the russians who were carrying out that part of the attack on our 2016 election, they needed to move money around for elements of that attack, for things like setting up websites, and operating servers. richard pinedo's online identity theft and bank fraud business was the means by which the russians were able to do some of that moving money around. so richard pinedo will be sentenced for that tomorrow. sentencing guidelines recommend a range of 12 to 18 months in prison for the kinds of crimes to which he has plead guilty. prosecutors, though, seem to be signaling to the judge that they tonight necessarily want the judge to throw the book at him. in their last substantive filing before tomorrow's hearing, prosecutors in th

mr. pinedo's cooperation and accept tans of responsibility.e judge, so he is prejudiced by being part of this investigation opposed to a regular u.s. attorney's investigation. prosecutor -- prejudice is maybe a little extreme, judge, because there are other instances which the u.s. attorney's office wouldn't be interested in the information he provided. but we think a prosecuting office that had a wider ambit, that would be right. but the judge says, without revealing too much, you would provide this information to another office? the prosecutor says, correct, your honor. what is all this i can't say, but what i mean is. this guy, richard pinedo, has been selling bogus bank account information online to who knows. he's pled guilty and cooperated. the judge needs to figure out how helpful he has been to co prosecutors as a cooperating witness. that's because the judge needs to decide how much of a break he's going to get on his sentence. the government, for example, is supposed to tell the judge if this guy provided information on more culpable