7/25/2023 0 Comments Trump dossier discreditedIn another trial of a defendant charged by Durham, a jury in Washington in May acquitted Michael Sussmann, an attorney for Democrat Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, of charges that he lied to the FBI when he passed along a later-discredited tip about possible communications between Trump's business and a Russian bank.ĭanchenko, a Russian-born researcher who resides in Northern Virginia, was indicted by Durham's office in 2021 on five counts of making false statements to FBI agents in 2017 about the sources of information he provided to former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. "While we are disappointed in the outcome, we respect the jury's decision and thank them for their service," Durham said in a statement. The judge in the case earlier had thrown out a fifth charge. Jurors acquitted Danchenko on four charges. Igor Danchenko's acquittal in federal court in Washington dealt another blow to Special Counsel John Durham, who was appointed in 2019 by Trump-era Attorney General William Barr to investigate the FBI's "Crossfire Hurricane" probe into whether members of Trump's campaign had colluded with Russia. President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign and Russia was acquitted by a jury on Tuesday on charges that he lied to the FBI about the sources of his information. WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - A Russian researcher who contributed explosive details to a document dubbed the "Steele dossier" that alleged ties between former U.S.
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