Craig indicted for allegedly making false statements to MuellerTop Democrats reiterate demand for unredacted Mueller report Sanders raises $18.2m in three months, leaping ahead of competitorsSign up for the US briefing and get a new perspective 7.45pm BST Gregory Craig, a former White House counsel for then president Barack Obama, has been indicted for allegedly making false statements to Robert Mueller during the special counsel´s Russia investigation.Yesterday lawyers for Craig said they expected their client to be indicted. According to the New York Times:They expect[ed] him to be charged with making false statements to the Justice Department officials examining whether he was required to register under the law for work he did in 2012, while he was a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.The work, on behalf of the government of Viktor F. Yanukovych, then the president of Ukraine, was linked to Paul Manafort, who at the time was a political consultant earning tens of millions of dollars for his representation of Mr. Yanukovych. 7.29pm BST Ohio´s governor has said he will sign a bill which bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected - which is typically before most women even know they are pregnant.Mike DeWine, a Republican, confirmed he will sign the legislation, which passed the Ohio legislature on Wednesday. 7.07pm BST A group of top House and Senate Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Adam Schiff, have written to attorney general Bill Barr demanding he release the full, unredacted, Mueller report to Congress.In a letter to Barr the Democrats said they wanted to `restate` that the report should be handed over in full.You have outlined four kinds of information that you plan to redact from this report: grand jury information, classified information, information that may impede an ongoing investigation, and information that may affect the privacy and reputational interests of third parties. We acknowledge that there ma ...
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