Democratic pollster Doug Schoen took the stand at Greg Craig’s trial, telling jurors how he enlisted the former Obama White House counsel in the Ukraine-related project that led to Craig facing a felony charge of trying to mislead DOJ officials
Schoen later told jurors he worked with Craig when in the White House two decades ago when Craig was an attorney fighting President Bill Clinton’s impeachment.
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time., but the prosecution says he sought to trick Justice officials because he didn’t want to limit future opportunities by registering under the Foreign Agent Registration Act and because he feared sullying his reputation by disclosing unknown details about the Ukraine-focused report, including the funding from Pinchuk.
“It would be a practical impossibility for me to put my name on work product I had nothing to do with,” Schoen testified, adding that Pinchuk also declined to be identified.Schoen was a prosecution witness, but Craig’s defense sought to emphasize to jurors that their client did not seek to work with Manafort but was drawn in by Schoen without initially knowing that the longtime GOP consultant was involved.
Prosecutors also highlighted that emails show Craig ended up hand-delivering a copy of the report to Sanger’s home in Washington, suggesting that demonstrated the lengths to which Craig was willing to go to get the document to the attention of the prominent Times reporter.
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