Former whit house (WH) council, Greg Craig, has been indicted by a federal grand jury. He is a prominent Democratic attorney who has worked for two presidents.
His charges include making false statements and concealing material information in connection with work he performed for Ukraine in a case stemming from special counsel Robert muller’s investigation.
He is the highest-profile Democratic to be indicted in a mater connected to Mueller’s work, which resulted in charges against numerous Republicans tied to President Donal Trump.
Craig was originally investigated for an alleged FARA violation, though he was charged with other crime after the statue of limitations of FARA expired in case.
Craig has released a video on Thursday calling the “unprecedented and unjustified.”
According to the indictment, from the start of the work on the report, Craig didn’t want to register as an agent for Ukraine “at least in part because he believed doing so could prevent him and others at his law firm, from taking positions in the federal government in the future.”
The indictment also alleges that Craig was deterred from registering out of his desire to hide that a third party, (private individual) has paid the firm more than $4 million for the report and that the firm has a “parallel engagement with Ukraine to assist in the prosecution of Tymoshenko on additional charges”
Craig allegedly withheld information about his contact with reporters from attorneys at his firm and ‘omitted material facts regarding his acts in furtherance of Ukraines media plan”In early 2013, when FARA unit officials asked Craig about his work for Ukraine, he gave them a letter containing “material false and misleading statements and omissions,” including that he provided only brief clarifying statements” to one of the reporters and that he had been in contact with the other reporters after the documents public release, the indictment adds.
The indictment says Craig repeated the problematic statements to the special counsels office during an interview in October 2017.
Craig’s indictment had been expected for several weeks, with Craig’s own lawyers saying Wednesday that anticipated such an outcome.
In his statement Craig said “i did not participate in a scheme to mislead facts. i was always honest about the reason for my contact with the media.”
