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Obama's WH Counsel To Be Indicted on Federal Corruption Charges

posted onApril 11, 2019
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Article snippet: The Wall Street Journal‘s Byron Tau and Aruna Viswantha reported late Wednesday: The New York Times‘ Kenneth Vogel, in his own report on the looming likely indictment of the former senior Obama official, writes that this “stemmed from” Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. While Mueller has concluded his investigation and determined that President Donald Trump and his campaign did not collude with the Russians, while also not finding sufficient evidence to charge Trump on obstruction of justice, other matters that came up in Mueller’s probe have been handed off to different U.S. attorneys and federal law enforcement agencies for their handling. Vogel writes: Craig, a top Democrat, served as White House counsel for nearly the full first year of Obama’s presidency–from Jan. 20, 2009, when Obama was inaugurated, until the beginning of January 2010. He also served as a senior official in former Democrat President Bill Clinton’s White House and worked in high levels of Democrat politics for many years prior to and after that. Clinton had reportedly even offered him the White House counsel job back then, but he turned it down in 1996. In a statement to the New York Times, Craig’s lawyers said outright that while they expect charges to be filed against him, they also maintain his innocence. “We expect an indictment by the D.C. U.S. attorney’s office at the request of the National Security Division,” ... Link to the full article to read more

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