A jury on Wednesday acquitted former White House Counsel Greg Craig of a charge that he lied to Justice Department investigators who were probing his connections to foreign lobbying work.
The case, an outgrowth of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, was a major test in the Justice Department’s efforts to ramp-up enforcement of foreign lobbying disclosure law.
The allegation that Craig violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act was thrown out last month by a federal judge in D.C. before the case when to trial. The jury weighed a single count of making false statement to DOJ investigators.
After a three-week-long trial, the jury …read more
Source:: TPM
