Former White House counsel Greg Craig's speedy acquittal has to questions over why the Justice Department brought the case again him in the first place
The grumbling was never far from the surface during Greg Craig’s three-week-long trial for allegedly scheming to deceive the U.S.
“This was in the hands of political people,” said longtime Craig friend Stuart Taylor Jr., an author, attorney and former New York Times reporter. “There’s a lot of politics going on at the Justice Department these days. That might well be a part of it.”Sign Up “Donald Trump might not be disappointed by the decision to try to make a criminal out of Greg Craig,” Taylor said.
Wilson, a commodities broker, said some jurors discussed that possibility, but only after they returned a verdict. The prosecution called to the stand three eyewitnesses — the unit’s top lawyer at the time, Heather Hunt, and two members of Craig’s law firm, Lawrence Spiegel and Kenneth Gross.
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