Gregory Craig, former Obama White House counsel, indicted for false statements related to Ukraine work in latest Mueller fallout
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Gregory B. Craig, then a special counsel to President Bill Clinton, pictured at a 1998 House Judiciary Committee hearing. Craig, 74, is the first prominent Democratic figure to be charged as a result of a foreign lobbying investigation spun out of Mueller’s probe Skadden produced a 187-page white paper that offered a mixed review of the trial and imprisonment of Tymoshenko, claiming the analysis it conducted of the case was independent.
Craig and DOJ officials then exchanged a series of letters about the topic through 2013, correspondence reviewed by The Washington Post shows. Skadden in January reached a settlement with the Justice Department, admitting it should have registered for its work in 2012 and 2013, and agreed to turn over the $4.6 million in fees it made for the report in exchange for facing no criminal charges. In its settlement, Skadden agreed that Justice’s 2014 finding that the firm did not need to register came after the agency relied on “false and misleading oral and written statements” made by Craig.
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