A lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign was acquitted Tuesday of lying to the FBI when he pushed information meant to cast suspicions on Donald Trump and Russia in the run-up to that year's election. The case against Michael Sussmann was the first courtroom test of special counsel John…
Michael Sussmann was acquitted of one charge of lying to the FBI in the first verdict rendered during the probe by a special counsel appointed in the Trump administration.
A jury has acquitted lawyer Michael Sussmann on the charge of lying to the FBI, dealing a blow to special counsel John Durham, who the Trump administration appointed to look into the Mueller probe.