Special Counsel John Durhan is winding down his investigation into the fabricated Trump-Russia claims, with no further charges in the case, according to media reports.
The grand jury Durham impaneled for the probe has now expired.
Durham could call another grand jury, but according to a report in The New York Times, there are currently no plans to do so.
Durham and his team are working on finishing their final report by the end of the year, three people familiar with the matter reportedly told the newspaper.
Attorney General Merrick Garland will now determine whether or not Durham’s report is released and in what form and with what redactions.
In another sign Durham is wrapping it up, one of the lead prosecutors on his team is leaving for a job with a prominent law firm.
According to the NYT report:
Durham and his team used a grand jury in Washington to indict Michael Sussmann, a prominent cybersecurity lawyer with ties to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign.
Sussman was indicted last year on a charge of making a false statement to the FBI at a meeting in which he shared a tip about potential connections between computers associated with Trump and a Kremlin-linked Russian bank.
Sussmann was acquitted of that charge at trial in May.
A grand jury based in the Eastern District of Virginia last year indicted a Russian analyst who had worked with Christopher Steele, a former British spy who was the author of a dossier of rumors and unproven assertions about Trump.
The dossier played no role in the FBI’s decision to begin examining the ties between Russia and the Trump campaign.
It was used in an application to obtain a warrant to surveil a Trump campaign associate.
The analyst, Igor Danchenko, who is accused of lying to federal investigators, goes on trial next month in Alexandria, Virginia.
In the third case, Durham’s team negotiated a plea deal with an FBI lawyer whom an inspector general had accused of doctoring an email used in preparation for a wiretap renewal application.
The plea deal resulted in no prison time.
Durham has one case outstanding.
From Just the News:
In a bombshell revelation, Special Prosecutor John Durham revealed Tuesday in court filings that the FBI paid a Russian businessman as a confidential human source in the investigation of Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign even though it had prior concerns that businessman was tied to Moscow’s intelligence services.
Durham persuaded the federal judge in the upcoming trial of Igor Danchenko to unseal a motion revealing that Danchenko, the primary source of the now-discredited Steele dossier, was paid by the FBI as a confidential human source for more than three years until the fall of 2020 when he was terminated for lying to agents.
Danchenko is charged with five counts of lying to the bureau during that relationship and faces trial next month in federal court in the Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C.
FBI paid suspected Russian asset to be a confidential informant against Trump for three years, prosecutors divulge in blockbuster filing. | Just The News https://t.co/eX0IqWY7rC
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) September 14, 2022
