The Justice Department says Michael Sussmann came to the FBI seemingly as a concerned citizen and not on behalf of a client — and then billed the Clinton campaign for the meeting
Durham’s new indictment, however, adds a new dimension to the Trump-Alfa Bank story. The indictment reveals in great detail how in the final months of the 2016 campaign Sussmann, an unnamed tech executive, and a group of unnamed cyber-researchers pursued the Trump-Alfa Bank story, took their research to the FBI, and distributed that research to the media.
The critical meeting between Sussmann and FBI General Counsel James Baker took place on September 19, 2016. The indictment says that Sussmann “stated falsely that he was not acting on behalf of any client,” which led Baker to believe that Sussmann was conveying the allegations about Alfa Bank “as a good citizen and not as an advocate for any client.
The FBI went on to open an investigation into Alfa Bank. But it did so without the knowledge that Sussmann was in fact acting on behalf of his clients, which included Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Had Sussmann been more forthcoming, the indictment says, “it might have prompted the FBI General Counsel to ask Sussmann for the identity of such clients” and might have caused the bureau to take “additional or more incremental steps before opening and/or closing an investigation.
The indictment is the most high-profile action by the Durham investigation since then-Attorney General Bill Barr
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