A lawyer for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign lied to the FBI to "manipulate" the agency in order to win the election, a court has heard. The charges arise from a meeting between Mr Sussmann, a cyber-security lawyer, and an FBI agent in 2016. Mr Sussmann presented what he claimed was evidence of suspicious internet traffic connecting the Trump Organization to Russia's Alfa Bank. Prosecutors say Mr Sussmann lied by not disclosing in the meeting that he was working for the Democrat's campaign. A lawyer for Mr Sussmann denounced the trial as an "injustice" at Tuesday's hearing in a Washington DC federal courthouse.

Source: The Star May 18, 2022 19:22 UTC