Attorneys for former White House Counsel Gregory B. Craig said Wednesday that he expects to face federal charges in the coming days in relationship to legal work he did for the Ukrainian government in 2012. The expected indictment — which his attorneys called “a misguided abuse of prosecutorial discretion” — stems from work Craig did with GOP lobbyist Paul Manafort on behalf of the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice in 2012. Craig talks with then-Attorney General Eric Holder as they leave a White House conference in 2009. Craig attended Yale Law School with Bill and Hillary Clinton and later worked in the Clinton State Department and White House. Manafort agreed they failed to disclose their lobbying effort, which included disseminating the Skadden report to U.S. government officials.

Source: Washington Post April 11, 2019 00:04 UTC