D.C. federal prosecutors indicted former White House counsel Greg Craig on two charges of making false statements to the Justice Department on Thursday, in a spin-off from a case that began during special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
Craig is accused of concealing information from and making false statements to the Justice Department’s Foreign Agents Registration Act unit, which enforces the country’s foreign lobbying law.
Though the investigation into Craig began with Mueller, he handed it off to Manhattan federal prosecutors. They then transferred the case to prosecutors in D.C.
Craig’s legal team has signaled in recent days that the former White House counsel …read more
Source: TPM
