Calling for grand jury records in the special counsel’s investigation to be made public, a lawyer for House Democrats told the D.C. Circuit on Monday about mounting evidence that the president lied to Robert Mueller.
Read moreDuring the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort pushed the idea that Ukraine, not Russia, was behind the hack of the Democratic National Committee servers, Manafort’s deputy told investigators during the special counsel’s Russia probe. The unsubstantiated theory, advanced by President Donald Trump even after he took office, would later help trigger the impeachment inquiry now consuming the White House.
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Federal prosecutors came out swinging in closing arguments during the criminal trial against Greg Craig Tuesday, urging the jury to find the high-profile Washington attorney guilty of lying to the Justice Department about his work for Ukraine.
Read moreA high-profile Washington lawyer accused of working on a secret campaign to sway America’s perception of Ukraine when it was cozy with the Kremlin faced a grueling cross-examination Thursday over a report that cost him his job at Skadden Arps.
Read moreA powerful Washington lawyer facing charges spun off from the Mueller probe testified in his own defense Wednesday, telling federal jurors that his work on behalf of Ukraine never crossed the line into foreign lobbying.
Read moreAttorneys for high-profile Washington – and Paul Manafort-tied – lawyer Greg Craig told a federal judge Tuesday that a close look at the federal statute requiring U.S. citizens to register as foreign agents for certain work done outside the United States reveals the ex-Skadden Arps lawyer had no obligation to tell the full truth to the Justice Department.
Read moreThe top Justice Department official tasked with tracking foreign agents testified Monday that Greg Craig, former Obama White House counsel who went on to work with Paul Manafort in Ukraine, failed to disclose contact with U.S. journalists – obstructing her ability to determine if he worked on behalf of the Ukrainian government.
Read moreIn a full day of testimony by high-profile D.C. attorney Cliff Sloan, both sides in the criminal trial of Manafort-tied Greg Craig plowed through draft letters Sloan and Craig wrote responding to a 2013 Justice Department inquiry into their work for the Ukrainian government.
Read moreIn a second round in the limelight of federal court, Rick Gates testified Thursday against former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig in a criminal trial that touches two successive presidential administrations.
Read moreA federal judge shot down objections by attorneys for former White House counsel Greg Craig on Wednesday over the government’s use of the Skadden Arps IT director to present dozens of documents as evidence in Craig’s criminal trial.
Read moreTempers flared Tuesday at the trial of Greg Craig as both parties questioned a government witness who testified that the former White House counsel was ingrained in operations to craft U.S. media coverage on Ukraine.
Read moreNearly seven years ago to the day, former White House counsel Greg Craig agreed in a meeting with future Trump campaign officials Paul Manafort and Rick Gates to communicate with journalists on behalf of the Ukrainian government, according to testimony Monday in Craig’s criminal trial.
Read moreThe criminal trial of Greg Craig continued Friday with an offbeat start as the former White House counsel spoke up in court for the first time with an apology.
Read moreOut to safeguard his “sterling reputation,” the government claims, former White House counsel Greg Craig lied about his work on behalf of Ukraine rather than tarnish his long-running career as a top D.C. lawyer by registering as a foreign agent.
Read moreA federal judge refused Tuesday to block to the trial of Greg Craig, former White House counsel to President Barack Obama, on charges that he misled the government about his work on a secret Ukrainian government campaign linked to Paul Manafort.
Read moreA year and a half after the plea deal from Rick Gates helped convict former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, a federal judge indicated Friday that the former lobbyist is finally ready for sentencing.
Read moreNew York Times reporter Ken Vogel has been exploring reporting over Ukraine-related lobbying from many dimensions, but a federal judge forestalled one of the avenues of his research on Monday, warning that journalistic scrutiny “could reveal the existence of law enforcement proceedings that are not officially acknowledged or publicly known.”
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Already convicted federally on a host of financial crimes, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort pleaded not guilty Thursday to related criminal charges by New York authorities.
Read moreShedding light on the federal intervention that is keeping Paul Manafort off Rikers Island, a series of letters made public Tuesday show that the government appeared to credit Manafort’s complaints about his pretrial conditions.
Read moreIn a decision that could have implications for convicted former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that a person can face state and federal prosecution over the same criminal conduct.
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