The jury in the trial of 2016 Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann on Tuesday found the defendant not guilty on a charge of providing a false statement to the FBI, after deliberating in the morning and on Friday.
Special Counsel John Durham last year charged Sussmann with lying to the FBI for allegedly telling then-bureau general counsel James Baker that he was not working on behalf of any client while providing him with data he said supported an alleged secret communications channel between the Russian Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization.
The connection was allegedly a backchannel to the Kremlin.
The Sussmann-Baker meeting took place Sept. 19, 2016, just weeks before Trump-Clinton Election Day.
The trial is the first in Durham's probe, created to look into the origins of the non-debunked Russia collusion plot.
