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Michael Sussman Trial at the US District Court for DC
WASHINGTON (AP) — A prosecutor says a lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign who is charged with lying to the FBI early in the Trump-Russia probe sought to “use and manipulate” federal law enforcement to create an “October surprise” in the final weeks of the presidential race.
The remarks came during opening statements Tuesday at the start of Michael Sussmann’s trial. He’s accused of lying to the FBI during a September 2016 meeting by telling the bureau’s top lawyer that he wasn’t acting on behalf of the Clinton campaign when he presented information that he said might connect Russia to then-candidate Donald Trump. Sussman’s lawyer denies that he lied.
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