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And that venture was far from collateral to the charged crime. Indeed,
the above-described joint venture was the very project that led Tech Executive-1 to rely upon the
defendant’s services; the very project that gave rise to the Russian Bank-1 allegations; the very
project that prompted agents of the Clinton Campaign to meet with Tech Executive-1; and the very
project that caused the defendant to meet with the FBI General Counsel and lie to him about the
clients who were behind all of this work. As the Government will demonstrate at trial, it was also
the politically-laden and ethically-fraught nature of this project that gave Tech Executive-1 and the
defendant a strong motive to conceal the origins of the Russian Bank-1 allegations and falsely
portray them as the organic discoveries of concerned computer scientists.