WASHINGTON — Former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann lied to an FBI official because he knew the bureau would have been more skeptical of since-discredited allegations of a Donald Trump link to Russia had they known he was acting on behalf of the Clinton campaign and an Internet executive, a federal prosecutor charged Friday. “He knew he had to conceal his representation of the Clinton campaign and Rodney Joffe to push the Alfa Bank allegations to the FBI,” prosecutor Jonathan Algor told jurors in his closing argument in DC federal court. “The chances of the FBI investigating would be diminished, would be seriously less” if Sussmann had been upfront with former FBI general counsel Jim Baker about his clients, Algor added.
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