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John Haughey
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12:45 PM · May 25, 2022·Twitter Web App
Grasso said if he knew Joffe's relationship with the Clinton campaign and that the data may have been generated by the campaign, "I would have passed that information onto the people investigating. I would want them to know this is tied to a political matter …” #SussmannTrial
https:/twitter.com/JFHaughey58/status/1529519079240900609
Sussmann billed the purchase of flash drives to Clinton campaign days before giving them to FBI
The prosecution rested its case on Wednesday and the defense called its witnesses. Just days before 2016 Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann met with the FBI over alleged Trump-Russia collusion – inspired by what he described as his desire to be a concerned citizen – Sussmann bought and billed the campaign for two flash drives on which he stored data that he presented to the bureau, a prosecution witness testified Wednesday.
Sussmann is on trial for a single charge of lying to the FBI in the September 2016 meeting for allegedly failing to disclose that he in fact was there as a private attorney clients.
Special Counsel John Durham has presented evidence that shows Sussmann, also a former federal prosecutor and Democratic National Committee lawyer, was in fact representing the Clinton campaign and tech firm executive Rodney Joffe.
The information in the drives that Sussmann presented to then-FBI general counsel James Baker in the meeting, weeks before Trump-Clinton Election Day, was allegedly data showing a secret communications link between the Trump Organization and Russian Alfa Bank as a backchannel to the Kremlin.
The revelation Wednesday about the flash drives was presented by prosecution team paralegal Kori Arsenault, who has examined billing and phone records in the case.
Her testimony came on the final day of the prosecution's case in a federal court in Washington, D.C. The trial started May 17 and is set to conclude Friday.
In a Perkins Coie expense report that Arsenault discussed in court, Sussmann billed the Clinton campaign for two thumb drives he bought at a Staples store on Sept. 13, 2016, six days before his meeting with Baker.
A disbursement form to the Clinton campaign from Perkins Coie, at which Sussman was a partner, states the drives were for the secure storage of files.
The defense team also called witnesses Wednesday, including former FBI agent Tom Grasso, who worked with Joffe and said he considered Joffee a friend.
Grasso also testified that Joffe gave him information about the now-debunked Trump-Russia plot, in addition to it having been channeled to the bureau through Sussmann.
Joffe gave Grasso two IP addresses that he eventually passed along to the Chicago FBI office. Grasso said he knew that Joffe was a confidential human source at the time and had a handler, but he didn't go through a so-called "hand-line" agent.
https:/justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/prosecution-wraps-eight-day-sussmann-trial-defense
1/3 Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook denied under oath knowing in 2016 that campaign lawyer Perkins Coie had retained FusionGPS, but prosecutor Durham has invoices from Perkins to Clinton campaign HQ in Brooklyn that show line items for "FusionGPS"
2/3 Clinton campaign lawyer Marc Elias testified that Mook was his billing contact at campaign HQ and they discussed "expenses" for "consultants" and "sub-consultants," which would include FusionGPS, the oppo research firm Mook now swears he knew nothing about
3/3 Clinton campaign manager Mook's testimony denying knowing in 2016 that the campaign had hired FusionGPS to dig up Trump dirt (or knowing about Fusion at all) also strains credulity because Clinton campaign chairman Podesta was aware of Fusion and knew Fusion CEO Glenn Simpson
https:/twitter.com/PaulSperry30/status/1529494101237846016
Tom Fitton
9:54 AM · May 25, 2022 · Twitter Web App
So Clinton campaign paid for Sussmann to lie to FBI? No wonder they lied in FEC filings about their payments to his law firm.
https:/twitter.com/charlie_savage/status/1529459027633119232
https:/twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1529460780600541185
Sussman trial: The government rests its case
latest thread from Real Toria Brooke on Sussman
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