Lawyers expect President Obama's first White House counsel, Greg Craig, to be charged for Manafort-related foreign lobbying violations
In a statement Wednesday night, the attorneys said the"government's stubborn insistence on prosecuting Mr. Craig is a misguided abuse of prosecutorial discretion."
The scrutiny of Craig stems from an investigation of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his work on behalf of a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine. If filed, the charges would come about three months after Craig's former law firm agreed to pay more than $4.6 million and publicly acknowledge that it failed to report its work for the Ukrainian government.
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