A Fusion GPS employee with “unique insight” into how her company, the Clinton campaign, and its law firm orchestrated “opposition research” into the Trump campaign that spurred the debunked “Russiagate” investigation will testify in the government’s case against former Clinton attorney Michael Sussmann.
United States District Judge Christopher Cooper Tuesday granted Special Counsel John Durham’s motion to compel Fusion GPS “tech maven” Laura Seago to testify when Sussmann’s trial begins May 16 in federal court in Washington, DC.
Federal prosecutors, led by Durham, have charged Sussmann with one count of making a false statement.
Durham maintains that in August 2016, Sussmann and Clinton campaign lead counsel Marc Elias met with Neustar executive Rodney Joffe—whose company was contracted to monitor DNS traffic for the Executive Office—and “encouraged” Joffe to concoct a “narrative” tying the Trump Organization to Alfa-Bank, the largest private bank in Russia.
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