WASHINGTON
– A federal grand jury today returned an indictment charging Gregory B. Craig,
a Washington-based lawyer, with making false statements and concealing material
information about his activities on behalf of Ukraine from the Department of
Justice, National Security Division’s Foreign Agents Registration Act Unit
(FARA Unit).
The
announcement was made by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John
C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu for the District of Columbia, and
Assistant Director in Charge William F. Sweeney, Jr. of the FBI’s New York
Field Office.
Craig, 74,
of Washington, D.C., was indicted by a grand jury in the U.S. District Court
for the District of Columbia for willfully falsifying and concealing material
facts from the FARA Unit, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section
1001(a)(1), and for making false and misleading statements to the FARA Unit, in
violation Title 22, United States Code, Section 618(a)(2).
An indictment
is merely a formal charge that a defendant has committed a violation of
criminal laws and is not evidence of guilt.
Every defendant is presumed innocent until, and unless, proven guilty.
The
maximum penalties for the charged offenses are, respectively, five years’
imprisonment and a $250,000 fine, and five years’ imprisonment and a $10,000
fine. The maximum statutory sentence for
federal offenses is prescribed by Congress and is provided here for
informational purposes. The sentencing
will be determined by the court based on the advisory Sentencing Guidelines and
other statutory factors.
Craig is
to be arraigned at a date to be scheduled by the Court.
This case
is being investigated by the FBI’s New York Field Office. It is being
prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Fernando Campoamor-Sanchez and Molly
Gaston of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and Trial
Attorney Jason McCullough of the Justice Department’s National Security
Division.
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