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Dem lawyer found not guilty of lying to FBI over alleged Trump-Russia link
Mark Hosenball
·Contributor
Tue, May 31, 2022, 9:51 AM
A federal jury on Tuesday found Michael Sussmann, a former lawyer at a firm that represented Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential campaign, not guilty of lying to a top FBI official over an alleged link between Donald Trump and a Russian bank linked to the Kremlin.
A jury foreperson told D.C. District Court Judge Christopher Cooper that jurors unanimously agreed to acquit Sussmann of the criminal charge. The courtroom reacted quietly to the announcement, and the judge then dismissed the jury.
Attorney Michael Sussmann leaves the Washington, D.C., district courthouse. (Julia Nikhinson/Reuters)
The jury acquitted Sussmann of lying to the FBI about who he was representing when he presented the agency’s lawyer with data and documents raising questions about alleged dealings between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank.
In brief remarks to reporters while leaving the courthouse, Sussmann welcomed the verdict. "I told the truth to the FBI, and the jury clearly recognized that with their unanimous verdict," he said, adding that he was "relieved that justice ultimately prevailed in this case."
"I'm looking forward to getting back to work that I love," Sussmann said.
The verdict is a major setback for John Durham, the special prosecutor appointed by William Barr, Trump's attorney general, to look into the origins of federal investigations into alleged Russian interference in U.S. politics.
Durham, who sat in the courtroom during the trial, left the courthouse Tuesday without commenting to reporters. In a statement released by the Justice Department, Durham said: “While we are disappointed in the outcome, we respect the jury’s decision and thank them for their service. I also want to recognize and thank the investigators and the prosecution team for their dedicated efforts in seeking truth and justice in this case.”
The case, which is the first Durham brought to trial, presented dueling narratives about the early months of the FBI's investigation into Trump's ties to Russia and the role that Hillary Clinton's campaign played in feeding allegations — some of them unsubstantiated or since discredited — to the bureau.
According to prosecutors, Sussmann, a cybersecurity lawyer for the Clinton campaign, brought claims in September 2016 about a supposed pattern of computer messages between the Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization to the bureau's chief counsel in an effort to gin up an FBI probe that would serve as an "October surprise" that would damage Trump.
Prosecutors said Sussmann deliberately lied that he was not acting on behalf of any client when he was actually serving the interests of the Clinton campaign and another law firm client, cybersecurity researcher Rodney Joffe.
Then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at a rally in Morrisville, N.C., in 2016. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
But the defense insisted that Sussmann went to the FBI as a public-spirited citizen who was genuinely concerned about the national security implications of potential communications between the Russians and Trump's business. (The FBI concluded that there was nothing nefarious about the alleged pattern of messages and they may have been nothing more than computer spam.)
The key witness for Durham's prosecution team was James Baker, a longtime personal friend of Sussmann who during the runup to the 2016 presidential election was serving as the FBI's general counsel, or chief lawyer. Baker testified at the trial that Sussmann told him about the allegations during a meeting in September 2016 at FBI headquarters.
During the meeting, Sussmann handed Baker memory sticks and printed materials purportedly documenting the link between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank. Baker testified, however, that he was "100 percent confident" that at the meeting Sussmann told him he was not presenting the allegations on behalf of a law firm client.
Arguing that Sussmann actually was acting on behalf of Clinton's campaign and his private cybersecurity client, prosecutors presented the jury with records from Perkins Coie, the law firm where Sussmann worked in 2016, which showed that the firm billed the Clinton campaign for meetings and other communications involving Sussmann during the summer and fall of 2016 that were related to what the billing records described as a "confidential project."
Bill Priestap, center, assistant director of the FBI's counterintelligence division, and other federal officials testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2017. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)
Baker and prosecutors did not produce any written notes of the meeting, which is the focus of Durham's indictment. In a conversation after the meeting with Bill Priestap, the FBI's counterintelligence chief, Baker testified that he told Priestap that the issue Sussmann had raised was urgent and that Sussmann was not representing a particular client.
Notes of the conversation taken by Priestap, which were entered into evidence, stated that, on the one hand, Sussmann told Priestap that he was "not doing this for any client." But Priestap then went on to note that Sussmann "represents DNC, Clinton Foundation, etc."
In the wake of Sussmann's meeting and Baker's conversation with Priestap, the FBI soon opened a full-scale investigation of the allegations Sussmann had presented to Baker, in which an FBI cybersquad based in Chicago played a major role. The field agents looking into the allegations concluded fairly quickly that the allegations of a serious link between the Trump Organization and the Russian bank lacked backup evidence.
Some witnesses said that if the FBI had known that the principal and original sources of the allegations had connections to the Clinton campaign or Democratic National Committee, the bureau might have been more hesitant to launch a full-scale investigation.
Defense lawyers at one point indicated to Cooper, the judge, that Sussmann was considering testifying in the case, but ultimately he did not appear on the witness stand.
Durham's team told the jury that less than 12 hours after meeting with Baker, Sussmann recorded 4.5 hours of work on written material and a confidential project. But a prosecutor said that two months later, Sussmann moved to revise the billing records to show he billed the Clinton campaign for 3.3 hours work that day.
The defense team told the jury that Sussmann had told Baker to take whatever action he thought was appropriate. "There is a difference between having a client and going somewhere on their behalf," defense lawyer Sean Berkowitz argued.
In his instructions to the jury, Cooper said that in order to convict Sussmann of the offense, the jury must have been convinced by the evidence that Sussmann knowingly and willingly made a fraudulent or fictitious statement to Baker intended to deceive the FBI and that the statement was "material" to the FBI investigation.
Marc Elias, a Perkins Coie lawyer who was the top attorney for Clinton's campaign and was called as a prosecution witness, told the jury that he did not authorize or instruct Sussmann to take the Alfa Bank allegations to the FBI. Clinton's 2016 campaign manager Robbie Mook, who testified for the defense, also said he had not authorized Sussmann to tell the FBI about Alfa Bank and Trump.
Last year, Kevin Clinesmith, a onetime FBI lawyer, pleaded guilty after Durham charged him with doctoring an email that other officials used to justify spying on a Trump campaign adviser. Clinesmith was sentenced to only a year of probation.
A false statement indictment brought by Durham is still pending against Igor Danchenko, a Russian who was a source for some of the allegations against Trump, including allegations related to Russia, which were laid out in a controversial anti-Trump "dossier" prepared for Clinton campaign operatives in 2016 by former British Intelligence officer Christopher Steele.
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BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dem lawyer found not guilty of lying to FBI over alleged Trump-Russia link
Mark Hosenball
·Contributor
Tue, May 31, 2022, 9:51 AM
A federal jury on Tuesday found Michael Sussmann, a former lawyer at a firm that represented Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential campaign, not guilty of lying to a top FBI official over an alleged link between Donald Trump and a Russian bank linked to the Kremlin.
A jury foreperson told D.C. District Court Judge Christopher Cooper that jurors unanimously agreed to acquit Sussmann of the criminal charge. The courtroom reacted quietly to the announcement, and the judge then dismissed the jury.
Attorney Michael Sussmann leaves the Washington, D.C., district courthouse. (Julia Nikhinson/Reuters)
The jury acquitted Sussmann of lying to the FBI about who he was representing when he presented the agency’s lawyer with data and documents raising questions about alleged dealings between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank.
In brief remarks to reporters while leaving the courthouse, Sussmann welcomed the verdict. "I told the truth to the FBI, and the jury clearly recognized that with their unanimous verdict," he said, adding that he was "relieved that justice ultimately prevailed in this case."
"I'm looking forward to getting back to work that I love," Sussmann said.
The verdict is a major setback for John Durham, the special prosecutor appointed by William Barr, Trump's attorney general, to look into the origins of federal investigations into alleged Russian interference in U.S. politics.
Durham, who sat in the courtroom during the trial, left the courthouse Tuesday without commenting to reporters. In a statement released by the Justice Department, Durham said: “While we are disappointed in the outcome, we respect the jury’s decision and thank them for their service. I also want to recognize and thank the investigators and the prosecution team for their dedicated efforts in seeking truth and justice in this case.”
The case, which is the first Durham brought to trial, presented dueling narratives about the early months of the FBI's investigation into Trump's ties to Russia and the role that Hillary Clinton's campaign played in feeding allegations — some of them unsubstantiated or since discredited — to the bureau.
According to prosecutors, Sussmann, a cybersecurity lawyer for the Clinton campaign, brought claims in September 2016 about a supposed pattern of computer messages between the Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization to the bureau's chief counsel in an effort to gin up an FBI probe that would serve as an "October surprise" that would damage Trump.
Prosecutors said Sussmann deliberately lied that he was not acting on behalf of any client when he was actually serving the interests of the Clinton campaign and another law firm client, cybersecurity researcher Rodney Joffe.
Then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at a rally in Morrisville, N.C., in 2016. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
But the defense insisted that Sussmann went to the FBI as a public-spirited citizen who was genuinely concerned about the national security implications of potential communications between the Russians and Trump's business. (The FBI concluded that there was nothing nefarious about the alleged pattern of messages and they may have been nothing more than computer spam.)
The key witness for Durham's prosecution team was James Baker, a longtime personal friend of Sussmann who during the runup to the 2016 presidential election was serving as the FBI's general counsel, or chief lawyer. Baker testified at the trial that Sussmann told him about the allegations during a meeting in September 2016 at FBI headquarters.
During the meeting, Sussmann handed Baker memory sticks and printed materials purportedly documenting the link between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank. Baker testified, however, that he was "100 percent confident" that at the meeting Sussmann told him he was not presenting the allegations on behalf of a law firm client.
Arguing that Sussmann actually was acting on behalf of Clinton's campaign and his private cybersecurity client, prosecutors presented the jury with records from Perkins Coie, the law firm where Sussmann worked in 2016, which showed that the firm billed the Clinton campaign for meetings and other communications involving Sussmann during the summer and fall of 2016 that were related to what the billing records described as a "confidential project."
Bill Priestap, center, assistant director of the FBI's counterintelligence division, and other federal officials testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2017. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)
Baker and prosecutors did not produce any written notes of the meeting, which is the focus of Durham's indictment. In a conversation after the meeting with Bill Priestap, the FBI's counterintelligence chief, Baker testified that he told Priestap that the issue Sussmann had raised was urgent and that Sussmann was not representing a particular client.
Notes of the conversation taken by Priestap, which were entered into evidence, stated that, on the one hand, Sussmann told Priestap that he was "not doing this for any client." But Priestap then went on to note that Sussmann "represents DNC, Clinton Foundation, etc."
In the wake of Sussmann's meeting and Baker's conversation with Priestap, the FBI soon opened a full-scale investigation of the allegations Sussmann had presented to Baker, in which an FBI cybersquad based in Chicago played a major role. The field agents looking into the allegations concluded fairly quickly that the allegations of a serious link between the Trump Organization and the Russian bank lacked backup evidence.
Some witnesses said that if the FBI had known that the principal and original sources of the allegations had connections to the Clinton campaign or Democratic National Committee, the bureau might have been more hesitant to launch a full-scale investigation.
Defense lawyers at one point indicated to Cooper, the judge, that Sussmann was considering testifying in the case, but ultimately he did not appear on the witness stand.
Durham's team told the jury that less than 12 hours after meeting with Baker, Sussmann recorded 4.5 hours of work on written material and a confidential project. But a prosecutor said that two months later, Sussmann moved to revise the billing records to show he billed the Clinton campaign for 3.3 hours work that day.
The defense team told the jury that Sussmann had told Baker to take whatever action he thought was appropriate. "There is a difference between having a client and going somewhere on their behalf," defense lawyer Sean Berkowitz argued.
In his instructions to the jury, Cooper said that in order to convict Sussmann of the offense, the jury must have been convinced by the evidence that Sussmann knowingly and willingly made a fraudulent or fictitious statement to Baker intended to deceive the FBI and that the statement was "material" to the FBI investigation.
Marc Elias, a Perkins Coie lawyer who was the top attorney for Clinton's campaign and was called as a prosecution witness, told the jury that he did not authorize or instruct Sussmann to take the Alfa Bank allegations to the FBI. Clinton's 2016 campaign manager Robbie Mook, who testified for the defense, also said he had not authorized Sussmann to tell the FBI about Alfa Bank and Trump.
Last year, Kevin Clinesmith, a onetime FBI lawyer, pleaded guilty after Durham charged him with doctoring an email that other officials used to justify spying on a Trump campaign adviser. Clinesmith was sentenced to only a year of probation.
A false statement indictment brought by Durham is still pending against Igor Danchenko, a Russian who was a source for some of the allegations against Trump, including allegations related to Russia, which were laid out in a controversial anti-Trump "dossier" prepared for Clinton campaign operatives in 2016 by former British Intelligence officer Christopher Steele.
But the defense insisted that Sussmann went to the FBI as a public-spirited citizen who was genuinely concerned about the national security implications of potential communications between the Russians and Trump's business. (The FBI concluded that there was nothing nefarious about the alleged pattern of messages and they may have been nothing more than computer spam.)
The key witness for Durham's prosecution team was James Baker, a longtime personal friend of Sussmann who during the runup to the 2016 presidential election was serving as the FBI's general counsel, or chief lawyer. Baker testified at the trial that Sussmann told him about the allegations during a meeting in September 2016 at FBI headquarters.
During the meeting, Sussmann handed Baker memory sticks and printed materials purportedly documenting the link between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank. Baker testified, however, that he was "100 percent confident" that at the meeting Sussmann told him he was not presenting the allegations on behalf of a law firm client.
Arguing that Sussmann actually was acting on behalf of Clinton's campaign and his private cybersecurity client, prosecutors presented the jury with records from Perkins Coie, the law firm where Sussmann worked in 2016, which showed that the firm billed the Clinton campaign for meetings and other communications involving Sussmann during the summer and fall of 2016 that were related to what the billing records described as a "confidential project."
Bill Priestap, center, assistant director of the FBI's counterintelligence division, and other federal officials testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2017. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)
Baker and prosecutors did not produce any written notes of the meeting, which is the focus of Durham's indictment. In a conversation after the meeting with Bill Priestap, the FBI's counterintelligence chief, Baker testified that he told Priestap that the issue Sussmann had raised was urgent and that Sussmann was not representing a particular client.
Notes of the conversation taken by Priestap, which were entered into evidence, stated that, on the one hand, Sussmann told Priestap that he was "not doing this for any client." But Priestap then went on to note that Sussmann "represents DNC, Clinton Foundation, etc."
In the wake of Sussmann's meeting and Baker's conversation with Priestap, the FBI soon opened a full-scale investigation of the allegations Sussmann had presented to Baker, in which an FBI cybersquad based in Chicago played a major role. The field agents looking into the allegations concluded fairly quickly that the allegations of a serious link between the Trump Organization and the Russian bank lacked backup evidence.
Some witnesses said that if the FBI had known that the principal and original sources of the allegations had connections to the Clinton campaign or Democratic National Committee, the bureau might have been more hesitant to launch a full-scale investigation.
Defense lawyers at one point indicated to Cooper, the judge, that Sussmann was considering testifying in the case, but ultimately he did not appear on the witness stand.
Durham's team told the jury that less than 12 hours after meeting with Baker, Sussmann recorded 4.5 hours of work on written material and a confidential project. But a prosecutor said that two months later, Sussmann moved to revise the billing records to show he billed the Clinton campaign for 3.3 hours work that day.
The defense team told the jury that Sussmann had told Baker to take whatever action he thought was appropriate. "There is a difference between having a client and going somewhere on their behalf," defense lawyer Sean Berkowitz argued.
In his instructions to the jury, Cooper said that in order to convict Sussmann of the offense, the jury must have been convinced by the evidence that Sussmann knowingly and willingly made a fraudulent or fictitious statement to Baker intended to deceive the FBI and that the statement was "material" to the FBI investigation.
Marc Elias, a Perkins Coie lawyer who was the top attorney for Clinton's campaign and was called as a prosecution witness, told the jury that he did not authorize or instruct Sussmann to take the Alfa Bank allegations to the FBI. Clinton's 2016 campaign manager Robbie Mook, who testified for the defense, also said he had not authorized Sussmann to tell the FBI about Alfa Bank and Trump.
Last year, Kevin Clinesmith, a onetime FBI lawyer, pleaded guilty after Durham charged him with doctoring an email that other officials used to justify spying on a Trump campaign adviser. Clinesmith was sentenced to only a year of probation.
A false statement indictment brought by Durham is still pending against Igor Danchenko, a Russian who was a source for some of the allegations against Trump, including allegations related to Russia, which were laid out in a controversial anti-Trump "dossier" prepared for Clinton campaign operatives in 2016 by former British Intelligence officer Christopher Steele.
Again, hope you feeble minded sheep enjoy your very small "victory"
Durham and Trump play the long game,which admittedly even though I know this, I get impatient at times......I didnt fully consider what would happen IF Sussman was convicted......
This guy gives the BEST short explanation...So while the Ds and the minions think they won ....in reality they have just earned more frequent flier miles towards that Gitmo Bay vacation...makes perfect sense why Durham didnt ask for the judge to recuse himself or why certain jury members were not struck.......
Durham and Trump play the long game,which admittedly even though I know this, I get impatient at times......I didnt fully consider what would happen IF Sussman was convicted......
This guy gives the BEST short explanation...So while the Ds and the minions think they won ....in reality they have just earned more frequent flier miles towards that Gitmo Bay vacation...makes perfect sense why Durham didnt ask for the judge to recuse himself or why certain jury members were not struck.......
Hey, did I post a thread at the indictment announcement that it was, or wasn't, gonna be consequential? No, YOU did, so STFU, bend over, bite that pillow, and take it in the ass like the BITCH that you are:Again, hope you feeble minded sheep enjoy your very small "victory"
Durham and Trump play the long game,which admittedly even though I know this, I get impatient at times......I didnt fully consider what would happen IF Sussman was convicted......
This guy gives the BEST short explanation...So while the Ds and the minions think they won ....in reality they have just earned more frequent flier miles towards that Gitmo Bay vacation...makes perfect sense why Durham didnt ask for the judge to recuse himself or why certain jury members were not struck.......
Durham drops first indictment...BOOM 
Nothing to say, Scumbag? Cat got yer crotch? Like it says below, even the "gold standard" of Republicans, Reagan, "edged out" Obama 26 indictments to ZERO.Again, hope you feeble minded sheep enjoy your very small "victory"
Durham and Trump play the long game,which admittedly even though I know this, I get impatient at times......I didnt fully consider what would happen IF Sussman was convicted......
This guy gives the BEST short explanation...So while the Ds and the minions think they won ....in reality they have just earned more frequent flier miles towards that Gitmo Bay vacation...makes perfect sense why Durham didnt ask for the judge to recuse himself or why certain jury members were not struck.......
Aaaaand... Not Guilty. Meanwhile... Criminals Gonna Crime
Tuesday May 31, 2022 · 9:59 AM PDT
Michael Sussmann has been found not guilty by the US justice system of a crime that only had one other so-called witness.
Meanwhile, post-Nixon, the Republican party and their voters seem to rate their presidents based on the number of crimes that members of their mafia-like administrations have committed. Their golden boy, Ronald Reagan tops the post-Nixon list with 26 criminal indictments while Jr comes in 2nd with 17. Obama had… zero. Trump comes in at 6 criminal indictments with 28 more criminal indictments for the Russians who were helping his campaign (just because Trump outsourced his crimes to a fascist hostile intelligence agency rather than relying on his own election committee should be a sign of how much more of a criminal (and a traitor) he is, not less.
LOL, no doubt DR. Doom comes in here.....fuck Sussman, that trial was just groundwork being laid.Kansas City Royals are playing “the long game”
Maybe a miracle will happen but globalist Marxist Dems took control long ago.
Dont need a miracle , just need a plan
Maybe God didnt part the red sea, Maybe Moses studied that shit and knew when the best time to cross was....
You are still on covfefe duty, Ill take 2 sugars and lots of cream.
Tards being tards once again.
It's a conspiracy case, not a "Sussmann" case, and honestly, how many tards now posting ever HEARD of Sussmann before today? Exactly.
Conspiracy literally means a massive investigation involving anyone and anything Durham has in his sights.
Although I received detailed daily play-by-play during this trial, I didn't post much in this thread because frankly, I don't have any faith in our corrupt justice system.
After the trial, one of the jurors said, "lying to the FBI isn't serious..we have more important things to worry about in this country" LOL
I'm with Mag, Crooked Hillary, Obama and Soros won't be tried before some corrupt liberal judge.
"Sedition" as outlined by Bill Barr sounds like a Gitmo special to me.
It's a conspiracy case, not a "Sussmann" case, and honestly, how many tards now posting ever HEARD of Sussmann before today? Exactly.
Conspiracy literally means a massive investigation involving anyone and anything Durham has in his sights.
Although I received detailed daily play-by-play during this trial, I didn't post much in this thread because frankly, I don't have any faith in our corrupt justice system.
After the trial, one of the jurors said, "lying to the FBI isn't serious..we have more important things to worry about in this country" LOL
I'm with Mag, Crooked Hillary, Obama and Soros won't be tried before some corrupt liberal judge.
"Sedition" as outlined by Bill Barr sounds like a Gitmo special to me.
Except you are WRONG again...its was VERY consequential.....you just dont understand it.Hey, did I post a thread at the indictment announcement that it was, or wasn't, gonna be consequential? No, YOU did, so STFU, bend over, bite that pillow, and take it in the ass like the BITCH that you are:
Durham drops first indictment...BOOM
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There is very little that surprises me, but this is completely stunning. An FBI whistleblower came forth to inform Rep Jim Jordan and Rep Matt Gaetz that the FBI maintains a workspace inside the law firm of Perkins Coie. {Direct Rumble Link} In response to a letter sent by Rep. Matt Gaetz and...
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Sounds pretty reasonable since you all are working together.
Get that info quicker and you can talk without having to use the telephone
