Federal prosecutors in New York charged Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya on Dec. 20, with obstruction of justice for her role in defending a money laundering case in the United States.
Although Veselnitskaya is best known for attending the 2016 Trump Tower meeting with senior members of the Trump campaign, the federal indictment (pdf) unsealed Jan. 8 is not directly related to the meeting or the special counsel investigation by Robert Mueller.
