Special Counsel Durham fails first courtroom test in his three-year probe
Michael Sussmann was acquitted of one charge of lying to the FBI in the first verdict rendered during the probe by a special counsel appointed in the Trump administration.
Updated May 31, 2022 at 1:14 PM ET
A jury in Washington, D.C., has acquitted lawyer Michael Sussmann on a single charge of lying to the FBI, dealing a blow to the three-year investigation by special counsel John Durham.
Jurors deliberated for six hours, spread over two days, before delivering the unanimous verdict to a courtroom filled with the defendant's family and members of the news media.
The jury forewoman, who did not give her name, told reporters outside the courthouse that "I think
