Durham Grand Jury Indicts Lawyer Michael Sussmann
The indictment alleges that Sussmann lied about his client in a 2016 meeting about former President Trump and Russia.
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On Sept. 16, a grand jury working with the office of Special Counsel John Durham indicted lawyer Michael Sussmann on a charge of making false statements to the FBI during the 2016 presidential election. The indictment alleges that Sussmann lied about his client in a 2016 meeting with an FBI official about former President Trump and Russia. Sussmann is an attorney at Perkins Coie, a law firm with ties to the Democratic Party.
You can read the indictment here and below:
Rohini Kurup is a J.D. candidate at the University of Virginia School of Law. Prior to law school, she worked as an associate editor of Lawfare and a research analyst at the Brookings Institution. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College.
