{"id":778812,"date":"2021-09-17T11:59:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T15:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=778812"},"modified":"2021-09-17T11:59:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T15:59:07","slug":"indictment-clinton-crony-lied-to-fbi-to-spread-trump-russia-smear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/indictment-clinton-crony-lied-to-fbi-to-spread-trump-russia-smear\/","title":{"rendered":"Indictment: Clinton Crony Lied to FBI To Spread Trump-Russia Smear"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Findictment-clinton-crony-lied-to-fbi-to-spread-trump-russia-smear%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=778812&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"30.374331550802\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Feds charge Michael Sussmann with lying to advance false Russia link<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Trump-2016-736x491-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Trump-2016-scaled-e1631890429884.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Trump-2016-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Trump-2016-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Trump-2016-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Trump-2016-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Trump-2016-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Trump-2016-1400x933.jpeg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tRepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump stands at his podium during the Presidential Debate at Hofstra University on September 26, 2016 in Hempstead, New York.  \/  Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 September 17, 2021 11:55 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"99.438864628821\">\n<p><span>A top Clinton campaign lawyer knowingly passed false information to the FBI during the 2016 election in an effort to portray Donald Trump as colluding with Russia, federal prosecutors alleged in a bombshell indictment released on Thursday.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Michael Sussmann, a former lawyer at Perkins Coie, was charged by a federal grand jury with lying to the FBI\u2019s top lawyer during a meeting on Sept. 19, 2016. Sussmann allegedly told James Baker, then serving as general counsel of the FBI, that he was not representing a client when he met with Baker to provide computer data purportedly showing a secret channel of communication between Trump\u2019s real estate company and Alfa Bank, a Russian bank owned by a trio of oligarchs. In fact, Sussmann was representing the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and an unidentified tech executive. The FBI debunked the allegations in February 2017, finding no evidence that the Trump Organization was in contact with Alfa Bank.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/sco\/press-release\/file\/1433511\/download\"><span>indictment<\/span><\/a><span> paints a damning picture of Sussmann\u2019s efforts to promote the story to law enforcement, members of the media, and within the ranks of the Clinton campaign. Sussmann&#8217;s alleged smear campaign was successful on all fronts. The FBI opened an investigation into Alfa Bank based on Sussmann\u2019s meeting. Multiple news outlets published stories in the run-up to the election and served as a key source in coverage. Hillary Clinton and her top foreign policy adviser, Jake Sullivan, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton\/status\/793250312119263233\"><span>touted<\/span><\/a><span> those reports on social media, saying they showed evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Sullivan now serves as President Joe Biden\u2019s national security adviser.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sussmann, a former Justice Department official, is the second person to be charged in an investigation led by Special Counsel John Durham. Durham struck a plea deal last year with former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who admitted to altering an email about Trump aide Carter Page to downplay his past work with the CIA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sussmann, who resigned from Perkins Coie after the indictment, has denied wrongdoing. He did not return a request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the indictment, Sussmann worked with the tech executive and a team of computer scientists to investigate computer data between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank. He also briefed top officials at the Clinton campaign about his efforts, the indictment says. The unidentified executive said they obtained the computer data in July 2016, though the original source of the data remains unknown. Alfa Bank has alleged that someone fabricated links between the bank and the Trump company.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The indictment says Sussmann and his collaborators knew that the allegations about Trump were likely false, but that Sussmann shared the information with the FBI anyway to influence the election. <\/span><span>In an Aug. 21, 2016, email cited in the indictment, the executive told his colleagues that he wanted to build a &#8220;very useful narrative&#8221; regarding the Alfa Bank connection for the Clinton campaign to use. But in the same email, the executive acknowledged that the information that Sussmann would later give the FBI was &#8220;a red herring&#8221; and not a covert communications channel between Trump and Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Though the researchers had major doubts about the Alfa-Trump link, Sussmann began preparing a series of white papers laying out the evidence for a secret communications channel between the bank and Trump\u2019s company. Sussmann provided the reports to Baker during their Sept. 19 meeting.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Neither the DNC nor a spokeswoman for Hillary Clinton responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections Feds charge Michael Sussmann with lying to advance false Russia link  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump stands at his podium during the Presidential Debate at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}