In separate congressional testimony, Baker told lawmakers that Sussmann told him 'that he had cyber experts that had obtained some information that they thought they should get into the hands of the FBI.' Sussmann said he didn't have a specific request for the FBI he just wanted the bureau to be aware of the information. Sussmann testified he passed the information along on behalf of a client, who is a cybersecurity expert.

He also billed the Clinton campaign for meetings with journalists about the same materials.Д¬ongressional investigators asked Sussmann in 2017 about this episode with Baker. Sussman billed these meetings to the Clinton campaign, according to the indictment. It also details meetings that Sussmann had with a partner at his law firm who was general counsel to the Clinton campaign as well as a tech executive who was a client of Sussmann's and researchers about purported links between Trump Organization computer systems and a Russian bank. The indictment says the DNC retained Sussmann in April 2016 to represent it in connection with Russia's hacking of DNC servers, and Sussmann also advised the Clinton campaign on cybersecurity issues. The firm's political law group represented Clinton's presidential campaign and has long provided counsel to the Democratic National Committee.ДЄfter the indictment was handed up Thursday, Sussmann resigned from Perkins Coie in order to focus on his legal defense, a spokesperson for the firm said in a statement. Sussmann worked on cybersecurity and privacy issues at the law firm Perkins Coie. The Department of Justice would ordinarily never bring such a baseless case.' 'At its core, the Special Counsel is bringing a false statement charge based on an oral statement allegedly made five years ago to a single witness that is unrecorded and unobserved by anyone else. 'The Special Counsel appears to be using this indictment to advance a conspiracy theory he has chosen not to actually charge,' they said in a statement. Sussmann's attorneys, Sean Berkowitz and Michael Bosworth, said their client will 'fight this baseless and politically-inspired prosecution.' That alleged lie mattered, the indictment says, because it misled the FBI and deprived it of 'information that might have permitted it more fully to assess and uncover the origins of the relevant data and technical analysis, including the identities and motivations of Sussmann's clients.' But prosecutors allege he was providing the materials on behalf of a technology industry executive and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. Sussmann told Baker that he wasn't passing the information along at the behest of any client. The indictment alleges that Sussmann 'lied about the capacity in which he was providing the allegations to the FBI.' In that meeting, Sussmann shared information about possible ties between a Kremlin-linked Russian lender, Alfa Bank, and a computer server at the Trump Organization. Sussmann is facing a single false statements count in connection with a conversation he had with then-FBI general counsel Jim Baker on Sept. Michael Sussmann, a former federal prosecutor who had worked at a law firm with longstanding links to the Democratic Party, is the second individual to be charged in special counsel John Durham's investigation into the origins of the FBI's Trump-Russia probe.

Special counsel John Durham, here in 2018, was tapped by former Attorney General William Barr to look into the origins of the FBI's investigation into connections between the Trump campaign and Russia.ДЄ Washington attorney who specializes in cybersecurity issues has been indicted for allegedly lying to the FBI ahead of the 2016 election in a conversation about possible ties between Donald Trump and Russia.

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