Michael Sussmann (Credit: Chalet Reports)
“A grand jury has indicted Michael Sussmann, the lawyer accused of making false statements during the 2016 presidential campaign to slander then-candidate Donald Trump in the final months of the election.
Sussmann, the indictment charges, “lied about the capacity in which he was providing … allegations to the FBI” of potential cyber links between a Russian bank and a company owned by former president Donald Trump.
Durham is pursuing a prosecutorial theory that Sussmann was secretly representing Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, which was a client of Sussmann’s firm, these people said. –Washington Post
Notably, this is far from over as Special Counsel Durham’s office pointed out in the statement that the investigation is “ongoing.” (Read more: Zero Hedge, 9/16/2021) (Archive)
Highlights from the Washington Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross (and others):
There it is https://t.co/90U6YqQUrf
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) September 16, 2021
The FBI opened an investigation of Alfa Bank based on the info that Michael Sussmann gave to James Baker, even though Sussmann knew the info was bogus. As Durham notes, the FBI wasted its time and resources chasing that false lead pic.twitter.com/r5zcURtwKO
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) September 16, 2021
I should stop here but this is a damning indictment of FBI, not Sussmann. Sussmann is a Perkins Coie lawyer. We expect this behavior. It does not matter who hands the evidence to FBI. FBI should have asked where did you get this from so they can verify it. Looks like they didn’t. pic.twitter.com/43d03Be5zc
— Nerd Immunity (@wakeywakey16) September 16, 2021
Sussmann billed the Clinton campaign for the time he spent meeting with reporters to plant the phony Alfa Bank story pic.twitter.com/npUvss9vVT
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) September 16, 2021
(Timeline editor’s note: We will be creating several timeline entries to cover the wealth of information in the 27-page indictment. You can save Michael Sussmann’s tag to keep up with what is added.)