Greg Craig, who served as former President Barack Obama's top White House l...
WASHINGTON - Greg Craig, who served as former President Barack Obama’s top White House lawyer, was charged on Thursday with lying about work he performed in 2012 for Ukraine in a case that grew out of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
Craig said in a statement he headed a team of lawyers that worked on an independent report for Ukraine’s justice ministry. After researching FARA requirements, they found they did not need to register as foreign agents under the law. Skadden produced the 187-page report at the behest of Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign who is currently serving a 7 1/2-year prison sentence for lobbying violations and financial crimes.“You are ‘THE MAN,’” he wrote Craig in an email after the report received favorable media coverage, according to the indictment.
Had Craig complied with the law, he would have been forced to reveal that funding for the report largely came from Viktor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian billionaire. Pinchuk paid the firm $4 million for its work, according to Skadden filings made as part of its settlement. Craig privately had reservations about Tymoshenko’s treatment but left them out of the report, the indictment said.
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