Obama’s former White House counsel has just been indicted by the DOJ regarding his Ukrainian activities:
Former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig charged with lying to the Justice Department about his activities on behalf of Ukraine pic.twitter.com/Bl3iIfChez
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) April 11, 2019
Here’s more from CBS News:
Former Obama administration White House counsel Greg Craig has been indicted by the Department of Justice with making false statements and concealing material information about his activities on behalf of Ukraine. Lawyers for Craig expected their client to be charged in a foreign lobbying investigation spun off from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, aruging in a statement that Craig “is not guilty of any charge and the government’s stubborn insistence on prosecuting Mr. Craig is a misguided abuse of prosecutorial discretion.”
Craig, 74, was indicted by a grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for willfully falsifying and concealing material facts from the National Security Division’s Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) Unit and for making false and misleading statements to the FARA Unit, according to a release by the DOJ. The maximum penalties for the charged offenses are, respectively, five years’ imprisonment and a $250,000 fine, and five years’ imprisonment and a $10,000 fine.
Of course his attorney says he’s innocent and I guess he’ll now get a chance to prove Craig’s innocence.
You can read more on this from CBS News.