Craig is the only Democratic appointee to be charged in a series of cases stemming from the Mueller probe.
A jury has acquitted former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig on a felony charge of intentionally misleading the Justice Department about his lobbying work related to Ukraine.
Craig’s involvement was examined by the Justice Department at the time, but came under fresh scrutiny by Mueller’s prosecutors as they explored the overseas ties and work of Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. The investigation was later transferred to prosecutors in Washington, who obtained an indictment of Craig in April on two counts: scheming to conceal facts in a federal investigation and making false statements in a Foreign Agent Registration Act filing.
Prosecutors stressed to the jury that Craig hand-delivered a copy of the 186-page report to Sanger’s northwest Washington home and kept a public relations specialist for Ukraine informed of the dealings with the prominent New York Times national security correspondent. Craig’s defense alleged that the relationship grew so strained that in dealing with Sanger and other journalists, he was trying to counteract or preempt an aggressive spin job Manafort was overseeing to make the report sound like a ringing endorsement of the controversial prosecution of Tymoshenko.
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