Ex-lawyer for Clinton campaign law firm pleads not guilty to charge in Trump-Russia probe By Reuters
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By Mark Hosenball
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s presidential marketing campaign regulation agency pleaded not responsible on Friday to mendacity to the FBI, a cost by a U.S. particular counsel investigating the origins of a FBI probe of potential ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 election marketing campaign.
Sean Berkowitz, a lawyer for Michael Sussmann, 57, a cybersecurity specialist who labored for the Perkins, Coie regulation agency, instructed U.S. Justice of the Peace Decide Zia Faruqui that he was getting into “a plea of not responsible on behalf of Mr. Sussmann”.
Andrew Defilippis, representing particular counsel John Durham, requested that circumstances for Sussmann’s launch on bail embrace limiting his journey to Washington D.C. and New Jersey, and that he switch a firearm he owned to a 3rd get together.
Berkowitz agreed to the circumstances. The subsequent listening to was scheduled for Sept. 22 earlier than U.S. District Decide Christopher Cooper.
Sussmann was accused in an indictment issued on Thursday by Durham of creating false statements throughout a Sept. 19, 2016, assembly with James Baker, then Basic Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The indictment accused Sussmann of falsely telling Baker he didn’t symbolize any shopper when he met him to provide the FBI white papers and different knowledge information containing proof of questionable cyber hyperlinks between the Trump Group and a Russian-based financial institution. Sources conversant in the investigation recognized the financial institution to Reuters as Alfa Financial institution.
The indictment mentioned Sussmann turned over that data to Baker not as a “good citizen” however as an lawyer representing a U.S. expertise govt, an web firm and Clinton’s presidential marketing campaign.
Sussmann “will battle this baseless and politically-inspired prosecution,” his attorneys Berkowitz and Michael Bosworth mentioned in a press release on Thursday. Sussmann resigned from Perkins Coie on Thursday.
Sussmann is the second particular person to be prosecuted by Durham since Trump-appointed U.S. Lawyer Basic William Barr tapped him in 2019 to analyze U.S. officers who investigated Trump-Russia contacts. Trump portrayed the 2016 FBI investigation as a political witch hunt.
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