Former Skadden partner Gregory Craig lobbied his law firm to hire a relative of Paul Manafort while Manafort was lobbying for the pro-Russia government of Ukraine, federal prosecutors said in a court filing.
Craig is charged with lying to the government about his efforts on behalf of the Ukrainian regime at the time. He has pleaded not guilty and, in a pair of motions filed Friday, asked U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington to dismiss the case.
