Trial of Obama White House counsel delayed as jury pool is dismissed
by Jerry Dunleavy
| August 13, 2019 03:40 PM
The trial of Obama White House counsel Greg Craig was delayed Tuesday after the jury pool was dismissed by the judge.
Both the prosecution and defense took issue with the pre-selection of potential jury members and the public's being barred from Monday's proceedings.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who handled former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s case and is overseeing the upcoming trial of Trump associate Roger Stone, said the jury selection process which began Monday would be scrapped and start over Wednesday.
“It’s a little bit of a setback,†Jackson said. “But I think it’s ultimately only going to delay this thing by a couple of days.â€
The Justice Department’s case against Craig, 74, spun off from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and focuses on the public relations work the well-connected Democratic attorney and the law firm he worked for — Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, and Flom — did for the pro-Kremlin government in Ukraine facilitated by Manafort in 2012. Craig faces one count of misleading investigators in the Foreign Agents Registration Act Unit.
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