Lawyers for an attorney who was representing Hillary Clinton’s campaign when he fed information to the FBI ahead of the 2016 election have attempted to get a judge to dismiss the case. Michael Sussmann, the attorney, was charged in September 2021 with making a false statement to the bureau. When he met with then-FBI lawyer James Baker, he allegedly denied representing any client as he fed evidence purportedly linking then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s company to a bank in Russia. A grand jury brought the indictment as part of an investigation into the origins of the probe into Trump and his campaign, being conducted by special counsel John Durham. In court on March 31, Sussmann’s lawyers told U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, an Obama appointee, that he should toss the charge. “To our knowledge—and the special counsel hasn’t found otherwise—never before has as an individual provided a tip to the government and …