WaPo: Durham grand jury indicts lawyer whose firm represented Hillary Clinton's campaign

[spanone]

Today at 4:14 p.m. EDT

A grand jury working with special counsel John Durham’s office handed up an indictment Thursday of lawyer Michael Sussmann, who prosecutors have accused of making false statements to the FBI during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Sussmann, the indictment charges, “lied about the capacity in which he was providing ... allegations to the FBI” of potential cyber links between a Russian bank and a company owned by former president Donald Trump.

An attorney at Perkins Coie, a prominent law firm tied to the Democratic party, Sussmann had been bracing for possible indictment.

Charging him marks a strange twist in the special counsel’s probe championed by Trump and his Republican allies, and which to date has resulted in a single conviction of a low-level FBI lawyer.

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[bottomofthehill]

1. works for me, Discovery could get very interesting.

[TheRealNorth]

2. So our people are basically getting indicted because there was an undisclosed conflict of interest.

Fuck these Republican assholes.

[Dream Girl]

5. Lying to the FBI is a felony

But it has to be a “material” lie. According to Barbar Quaid

[Me.]

3. But Was He Actually Working For HRC?

There seems to be some doubt

[spanone]

4. probably all tfg wanted

give me the headline & let me & the R’s
take care of it

[StarfishSaver]

6. I think the Washington Post is playing cute

Their wording is interesting. They don't say he worked for Hillary, but the firm did work for her campaign. Well la dee da ... most large firms did work for one entity or another, but that doesn't mean every attorney in the firm is connected to that client.

I wouldn't be surprised if he had very little connection to Hillary Clinton - otherwise, the WAPO would surely have said so.