Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson tossed out a criminal charge against former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig, a blow to the Justice Department's efforts this year to prosecute foreign lobbying violations as criminal acts
Washington Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson tossed out a criminal charge against former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig, a blow to the Justice Department's efforts this year to prosecute foreign lobbying violations as criminal acts.
Jackson threw out a charge that accused Craig of making a criminal false statement by omitting information about his work for a foreign government on a letter sent to the Justice Department in 2013. "A scheme offense must be based on active falsification or concealment, and not merely passivity or silence," she added, citing previous court cases about false statements. She wrote that the criminal code couldn't justify his case.
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