-Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation resulted
in 34 people being charged with crimes,
including 26 Russian nationals
and 6 former Trump advisers or associates.
It uncovered financial crimes,
delved into murky lobbying efforts
for the Ukrainian government,
and revealed a complex web of Internet propaganda.
Among the people connected to President Trump
who were charged are lobbyist
and political consultant Paul Manafort,
who worked as Trump's campaign manager in 2016.
He faced multiple indictments stemming from his work
as a political consultant in Ukraine in 2012
and his financial dealings.
The indictments included charges of conspiracy
against the United States, conspiracy to launder money,
working as an unregistered foreign agent,
making false statements, tax evasion, and bank fraud.
Manafort was convicted of eight tax-
and bank-fraud charges in August 2018
and then pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud
the United States and to obstruct justice
in a separate case in September 2018.
The guilty plea was part of a deal
that the judge later ruled that he breached.
He was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison in March 2019.
Several of Manafort's business associates
from his work in Ukraine
were also caught up in the investigation.
Rick Gates, who had worked with Manafort since 2006
and was his deputy on Trump's campaign,
was also charged and pleaded guilty to conspiracy
and lying to the FBI in a cooperation deal.
Alex van der Zwaan, a London-based lawyer
who worked with Manafort and Gates
when they worked as political consultants in Ukraine
and is also married to the daughter
of a Russian billionaire, pleaded guilty in February 2018
to lying to the FBI about their work in Ukraine.
He was sentenced to 30 days in prison.
And Manafort's longtime Ukrainian business associate,
Konstantin Kilimnik,
was charged with working with Manafort to obstruct justice.
Investigators say the two tried to influence potential witnesses
in a case involving their failure
to register as foreign lobbyists.
The FBI also says that Kilimnik has ties
to Russian intelligence.
In a 2017 statement to The Washington Post,
he denied any connection to Russian intelligence.
Trump's short-lived National Security Adviser,
Michael Flynn, pleaded guilty in December 2017
to lying to the FBI about his contacts
with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Mueller recommended that he serve little to no jail time
for his substantial assistance to the investigation.
George Papadopoulos,
who was a foreign-policy adviser to the Trump campaign,
pleaded guilty in October 2018
to lying to the FBI about his interactions with Russians
who said they had damaging information on Hillary Clinton.
He was sentenced to 14 days in prison in September 2018.
President Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen,
pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in November 2018
after Mueller's team searched his office,
home, and hotel room in April.
He also pleaded guilty in a separate case
in the Southern District of New York
to eight charges that included campaign-finance violations,
tax violations, and lying to a bank.
He was sentenced in November 2018 to three years in prison.
And longtime Republican operative Roger Stone,
who has informally advised Trump over the years
and was briefly an adviser to his campaign in 2015,
was indicted and arrested in January 2019 on charges
including lying, obstruction, and witness-tampering.
Mueller's team of prosecutors
charged 13 Russian individuals and 3 entities in February 2018
for a long-running online scheme to criminally interfere
with the 2016 election through a troll farm
that carried out a divisive propaganda campaign on U.
S. citizens.
And Richard Pinedo, a California businessman,
pleaded guilty in the same month to identity fraud
for creating hundreds of bank accounts with stolen identities
and selling them to unidentified offshore users
that may have been connected to the troll farm.
He was sentenced in October 2018 to six months in prison
and six months of home confinement.
They also charged a group of 12 Russian
military-intelligence officers in July 2018
for hacking Democrats' computers and stealing
and publishing their data.
Mueller also sent a number of referrals to other prosecutors,
including ones that resulted in charges against Gregory Craig
for making false statements.
He served in the Obama administration
as White House counsel
and then worked at the same law firm as Manafort.
His referral also spurred on the Southern District
of New York's charges of financial crimes against Cohen.
So while Mueller's investigation is shuttered,
threads of it are continuing, whether in ongoing sentencing
or continuing investigations in other jurisdictions.