Konstantin Kilimnik, whom the FBI alleges has ties to Russian intelligence, helped a U.S. legal team headed by former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig
A man the FBI alleges has ties to Russian intelligence helped a U.S. legal team headed by former Obama White House Counsel Greg Craig as it prepared a review of the prosecution of former Ukrainian President Yulia Tymoshenko, according to an FBI report released Monday.
“CRAIG stated that … Kilimnik was ‘deputized’ by Manafort to assist CRAIG and Skadden with their logistics in Ukraine” during an initial April 2012 trip, the FBI report says. “Initially, Manafort was going to take CRAIG to appointments with Ukrainian government officials. However, Kilimnik ended up escorting them and CRAIG was very impressed with him.
Craig’s lawyers filed the report as part of a motion to try to exclude discussion of his 2017 interview from the pending criminal case against him, set to go to trial in August. That case focuses on statements he made to the Justice Department’s Foreign Agents Registration Act office in 2013 about the Ukraine-related work, but the indictment of Craig also mentions in passing that Craig made similar statements at the 2017 meeting with Mueller’s investigators.
“Agent note: CRAIG’s face turned red during this part of the interview, he pushed himself away from the table in his seat, and crossed his arms,” according to the FBI report, prepared by Supervisory Special Agent Omer Meisel. “Exploring the 2017 SCO statements would be more than just a quick detour; it would approximate a full-on second trial for alleged false statements withThe motion to preclude discussion of the 2017 interview was one of a flurry of motions filed in the case Monday as both sides jockey about what matters can and cannot be broached at the upcoming trial.
While Yanukovych’s allies were not initially happy with Craig’s report or its portrayal in the media, they eventually came to view the effort as a smashing success, according to Jonathan Hawker, a public relations adviser who worked on the project.
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