DOJ may charge Obama White House lawyer for failing to disclose foreign lobbying work
by Caitlin Yilek
| March 18, 2019 05:04 PM
The Justice Department is considering whether to charge a prominent Democrat, who served as White House counsel during President Barack Obama’s first year in office, for failing to disclose work he did on behalf of Ukraine.
The lawyer, Gregory Craig, worked on behalf of the Russia-aligned government of Viktor Yanukovych in 2012.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan were considering whether to bring criminal charges against Craig last year as part of an investigation into former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. The charges were referred to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York by special counsel Robert Mueller, CNN reported at the time.
The case was transferred to the Justice Department in January, the New York Times reported Monday. Federal prosecutors in Washington are expected to make a decision about charges in the coming weeks.
Craig would be the first Democrat to be charged in a case relating to Mueller’s investigation.
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