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Gregory Craig, former Obama White House counsel, indicted for offering false statements related to Ukraine work in latest Mueller fallout

 

Washington attorney Gregory B. Craig, who served as White House counsel for President Barack Obama, was charged Thursday with lying to federal officials who were examining whether he should have registered as a foreign lobbyist for legal work he did for the Ukrainian government in 2012.

 

The indictment stems from work Craig did with GOP lobbyist Paul Manafort while Craig was a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, the law firm he joined after ending his tenure at the White House. Manafort, the former campaign chairman to President Trump, pleaded guilty last year to charges related to his Ukraine lobbying.

 

Craig’s lawyers had said in a statement Wednesday that they expected he would be indicted, calling the action “a misguided abuse of prosecutorial discretion.”

 

“Mr. Craig is not guilty of any charge,” attorneys William W. Taylor III and William Murphy said.

 

The case, brought by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington and the Justice Department’s National Security Division, grew out of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign.

 

Craig was charged with two felony counts in connection with alleged false statements related to his Ukraine work. He allegedly made the statements to Justice Department officials who were evaluating whether he should have registered as a foreign agent and in an interview with Mueller’s prosecutors.

 

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

 

Craig resigned from Skadden in April 2018 amid a building investigation into whether the firm’s lawyers failed to register as foreign lobbyists for their engagement on behalf of the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice.

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