Attorney Greg Craig (L) Arrives with Retired Gen. James Cartwright, (R), for a hearing at US District Court, October 17, 2016 in Washington, DC.
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A federal judge on Tuesday dropped one of the two criminal charges against President Barack Obama’s White House counsel Greg Craig, who is accused of lying about his work for Ukraine.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson dismissed a count of making false and misleading statements to the Department of Justice’s Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, unit.
The charges against Craig stemmed from the federal probe of Russian election interference, possible obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump and possible coordination between the Kremlin and Trump’s campaign led by former special counsel Robert Mueller.
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