Durham is said to be seeking indictment of lawyer whose firm represented Hillary Clinton’s campaign
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Special counsel John Durham, appointed during the Trump administration to investigate possible wrongdoing at the FBI and other agencies dating to the 2016 election, is preparing to seek the indictment of an attorney whose firm has close ties to Democrats, according to two people familiar with the matter.
These two people, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the sensitive political investigation, said Wednesday that the lawyer, Michael Sussmann, is bracing for the possibility he will be charged with lying to the FBI in September 2016, when he raised concerns about possible ties between a Russia-based bank and a computer server at one of former president Donald Trump’s companies.
A charging decision could come within days, as the statute of limitations is due to expire on the fifth anniversary of Sussmann’s meeting with the FBI’s general counsel at the time, James Baker.
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