Stuart Taylor, Jr.Manafort, Ukraine, and the Scapegoating of Greg Craig – Stuart Taylor, Jr. https://www.stuarttaylorjr.com Online Archive Fri, 20 Aug 2021 13:35:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.stuarttaylorjr.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Manafort, Ukraine, and the Scapegoating of Greg Craig – Stuart Taylor, Jr. https://www.stuarttaylorjr.com 32 32 Manafort, Ukraine, and the Scapegoating of Greg Craig https://www.stuarttaylorjr.com/manafort-ukraine-and-the-scapegoating-of-greg-craig/ https://www.stuarttaylorjr.com/manafort-ukraine-and-the-scapegoating-of-greg-craig/#respond Wed, 27 Mar 2019 15:42:51 +0000 Stuart Taylor, Jr. https://www.stuarttaylorjr.com/?p=17230 Of all the collateral damage inflicted on ancillary players in the special counsel’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, none is as strange – or capricious – as the Justice Department’s crusade against well-connected Democratic lawyer Gregory B. Craig. It seems on the verge of prosecuting Craig, one of Washington’s most celebrated lawyers, on charges of lying to department officials in 2013 to evade a legal duty to register as an agent for the Ukrainian government under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). But the Justice Department’s leadership should take a hard look at the case before […]

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]]> Of all the collateral damage inflicted on ancillary players in the special counsel’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, none is as strange – or capricious – as the Justice Department’s crusade against well-connected Democratic lawyer Gregory B. Craig. It seems on the verge of prosecuting Craig, one of Washington’s most celebrated lawyers, on charges of lying to department officials in 2013 to evade a legal duty to register as an agent for the Ukrainian government under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). But the Justice Department’s leadership should take a hard look at the case before it’s too late to avert a grave injustice. (Disclosure: Greg Craig is a friend of mine.)

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