According to a filing from Special Counsel John Durham, lawyers for the Clinton campaign hired a tech firm to “infiltrate” Trump Tower servers and later the White House in order to set up an “inference” and “narrative” to present to government agencies connecting former president Donald Trump to Russia, Fox News informed.
On February 11, Durham filed a motion focusing on possible conflicts of interest in the representation of former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman, who’s been charged with lying to a federal investigator.
Sussman has entered a not guilty plea.
Sussman allegedly told then-FBI General Counsel James Baker in September 2016, less than two months before the 2016 presidential election, that he was not working “for any client” when he demanded and held a meeting in which he proffered “purported data and ‘white papers’ that reportedly proved a secretive communication line” between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, which has connections to the Kremlin, according to the indictment.
Sussman “had compiled and relayed the charges to the FBI on behalf of at least 2 different clients, including a technology director (Tech Executive 1) at a U.S.-based tech company (Internet Company 1) and the Clinton campaign,” according to Durham’s filing on February 11.
Sussman’s “billing records reveal” that he “repeatedly invoiced the Clinton Campaign for his services on the Russian Bank-1 accusations,” according to Durham’s lawsuit.
Sussman and the Tech Executive met and talked with another law partner who was functioning as General Counsel for the Clinton campaign, according to the petition.
Marc Elias, a former partner at the legal firm Perkins Coie, is said to be the lawyer in question, according to sources.
According to Durham’s lawsuit, in July 2016, the tech executive collaborated with Sussman, a U.S. investigative company hired by Law Firm 1 on behalf of the Clinton campaign, as well as numerous cyber researchers and staff from multiple tech firms, to “arrange the purported data and white papers.”
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