Trump-era special counsel John Durham faces first test in trial of lawyer with ties to Clinton campaign
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Washington – As Capitol Hill and the White House turn their attention to the 2022 midterm elections and beyond, jurors in the nearby Washington, D.C., federal courthouse will be asked instead to look backward — at events surrounding the 2016 presidential election — as special counsel John Durham's team begins its first criminal trial since his appointment three years ago.
Attorney Michael Sussmann, whose one-time law firm represented Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, is charged with a single count of lying to investigators that year, after he brought the FBI unverified evidence that may have connected Trump Tower with Russia's Alfa Bank.
It is not the content of Sussmann's tip that will be at issue at trial, but his alleged representation that he had brought the information to investigators on his own and not on behalf of any legal client.
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