Former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig adamantly resisted registering as a foreign agent for his Ukraine-related work, according to a senior partner at Craig’s former law firm
Former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig adamantly resisted registering as a foreign agent for his Ukraine-related work, citing concerns that doing so could complicate efforts by him or others to go to work for the U.S. government in the future, a senior partner at Craig’s former law firm testified Monday.
Prosecutors say that ambition was a key part of Craig’s motive to mislead the Justice Department’s Foreign Agents Registration Act unit, but the defense seemed to embrace Craig’s agitation on the subject. It’s unclear what future jobs Craig may have wanted to preserve his viability for, but one of Craig’s main Skadden colleagues on the Ukraine project — Cliff Sloan — left the firm in June 2013 amid the Justice inquiry. Sloan spent a year and a half at the State Department as the Obama administration’s envoy for closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects.Jurors also heard Monday from the key government official Craig is charged with misleading, Heather Hunt.
“It was quite a bit of work involved for $12,000. So, it was something we were looking at,” she said. “All of that was important to trying to determine the different foreign principals involved. It was basically going to who was behind this whole effort.” Spiegel’s recollection was more vague. He said he remembers FARA personnel asking “detailed questions to try to poke and probe whether what we were saying in terms of not being an agent and [being] reactive and corrective.”
In March of this year, the Justice Department named a prosecutor who’d worked on former special counsel Robert Mueller’ Trump-Russia investigation, Brandon Van Grack, to oversee the FARA unit. Hunt was given a new title, senior counsel for FARA registration.
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