An obscure legal filing that sparked a political tempest was just “a sideshow,” the judge declared.
The standoff sparked furious accusations and counter-accusations of political chicanery, but U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper called the legal question
Sussmann is charged with lying to the FBI during the heated final days of the 2016 presidential campaign. By the special counsel’s account, he hid whom he was working for when he approached a senior FBI official with evidence of a possible computer link between then-candidate Donald Trump’s company and a Russian bank. Though Sussmann denied he made the approach on behalf of a client, Durham alleged, he actually did so for two: a tech executive and Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Sussmann’s lawyer had asked the court to strike from the record those parts of Durham’s filing. The judge declined to do so, though he also cautioned prosecutor Andrew DeFilippis that he should be careful going forward about what he includes in court papers.“Striking it will not unring the bell and will probably make the bell even louder,” Cooper said. “Keep in mind,” he told DeFilippis, “that the pleadings in this case are under a microscope. … Be mindful of that as we go forward.
The latest political furor surrounding the Sussmann case began when prosecutors raised an ostensibly innocuous issue — asking Judge Cooper to inquire about possible conflicts of interest involving Sussmann’s legal team. But Durham included in it some new details about the computer ties that Sussmann and those working with him had analyzed between Trump-connected entities and those linked to Russia. The FBI investigated the purported links and found nothing nefarious.
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