In August 2016, Hillary Clinton campaign attorneys Marc Elias and Michael Sussmann met with Neustar Senior Vice President Rodney Joffe in their Perkins Coie law offices in Washington and “encouraged” him to concoct a “narrative” tying the Trump Organization to a Russian bank, according to federal prosecutors.
But it remains uncertain whether that concocted “narrative,” and the “decision tree” that seeded and circulated it to the FBI a month later, is relevant in special counsel John Durham’s case against Sussmann for making a false statement to the FBI.
