Durham focuses on Russian YotaPhones Clinton campaign lawyer linked to Trump
by Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter |
| April 21, 2022 07:00 AM
John Durham has revealed further details about the Trump-Russia collusion allegations that Michael Sussmann pushed to the CIA in 2017, scrutinizing claims surrounding Russian phones known as YotaPhones.
In early 2017 in a conversation with the CIA, the Democratic cybersecurity lawyer linked former President Donald Trump to these phones near the White House and elsewhere beginning in 2016. The special counsel has rejected these allegations and said the CIA did too.
Sussmann was indicted last September for allegedly concealing his clients — Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and “Tech Executive-1,” known to be former Neustar executive Rodney Joffe — from FBI general counsel James Baker in September 2016 when he pushed since-debunked claims of a secret back channel between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank.
Durham says Sussmann similarly concealed his client, Joffe, when he met with the CIA on Feb. 9, 2017. The special counsel released Friday a lightly redacted version of the CIA’s “memorandum for the record” written the day the agency met with Sussmann.
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