BREAKING: Former Obama White House Counsel Greg Craig was charged by a federal grand jury with making false statements and concealing material information about his work in private practice lobbying on behalf of the Ukrainian government
Former Obama White House Counsel Greg Craig was charged Thursday by a federal grand jury with making false statements and concealing material information about his work in private practice lobbying on behalf of the Ukrainian government.filed in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. says Craig, 74, purposefully and repeatedly misled federal investigators about his need to register as a foreign lobbyist, including in 2017 when interviewed by prosecutors for special counsel Robert Mueller.
The lawyers, William W. Taylor, III and William J. Murphy, said DOJ’S National Security Division asked for Craig’s case to be taken up by the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. and slammed “the government’s stubborn insistence on prosecuting Mr. Craig” as a “misguided abuse of prosecutorial discretion.”
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