How much legal trouble is Junior in?
By Joan Biskupic
Updated 8:21 PM ET, Tue July 11, 2017
... The latest emails could relate most directly to federal campaign finance law barring the solicitation of any contribution or "thing of value" from foreign nationals.
Legal analysts also raise the possibility of perjury, for example, if Trump Jr. or anyone else involved earlier denied any Russian meeting to federal investigators. Anyone who made a false statement to federal investigators about the meeting, including a material omission on government personnel paperwork, could be in serious jeopardy. It is not clear that he has made any statements under oath related to the Russian interference in the election ...
"Whether the Trump campaign violated campaign finance laws simply by having the meeting is actually a bit complicated," said Vladeck, "a University of Texas law professor, because it turns to some degree on the extent to which the opposition research is a 'thing of value,' and whether the Russians thereby gave 'substantial assistance' to the campaign, terms that are notoriously opaque in this context."
He added that for federal investigators, the larger issue could be whether laws were broken in subsequent misstatements or refusals to acknowledge the existence of the meeting ...
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