ToplineA federal grand jury has indicted a lawyer with links to the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign for allegedly making a false statement to the FBI, a charge leveled by John Durham, a special counsel appointed during the Trump administration to look into possible wrongdoing during the FBI’s investigation into Trump-Russia ties. “The Special Counsel appears to be using this indictment to advance a conspiracy theory he has chosen not to actually charge. This case represents the opposite of everything the Department of Justice is supposed to stand for. Mr. Sussmann will fight this baseless and politically-inspired prosecution.”TangentThe FBI opened a probe into Sussmann’s claims about connections between a Trump Organization server and a Russian bank server, the indictment says. Key BackgroundSussmann’s indictment stems from a broader probe by Durham of the federal government’s investigations into Trump’s 2016 campaign, including the FBI’s pre-election Crossfire Hurricane investigation and Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation.

Source: Forbes September 16, 2021 22:04 UTC