Michael Sussmann Found Not Guilty

Washington, D.C. — The jury in Democratic attorney Michael Sussmann’s false-statement trial returned a verdict of not guilty on Tuesday after a two-week trial.

Sussmann was accused of having lied to former FBI general counsel James Baker, whom he approached in September 2016 with flimsy evidence of a secret communications channel between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank. He is alleged to have told Baker during a meeting at FBI headquarters that he was coming to him on behalf of no client while representing both Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and tech executive Rodney Joffe.

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Washington, D.C. — The jury in Democratic attorney Michael Sussmann’s false-statement trial returned a verdict of not guilty on Tuesday after a two-week trial.

Sussmann was accused of having lied to former FBI general counsel James Baker, whom he approached in September 2016 with flimsy evidence of a secret communications channel between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank. He is alleged to have told Baker during a meeting at FBI headquarters that he was coming to him on behalf of no client while representing both Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and tech executive Rodney Joffe.