The single count was a my-word-against-his charge that Sussmann had told a Federal Investigator, in a one-on-one meeting, unrecorded, and with no contemporaneous notes, that he was only there on his own, and not representing a client, when bringing forth some information about the mysterious Alfa Bank server in Trump tower. That's it. That's all they brought to trial. And the jury didn't buy it.
The irony is that the prosecutors are saying that the FBI shouldn't be used for political purposes, but by bringing forth such a threadbare case, that was clearly what they were doing--throwing a sop to Trump and his base about the whole Russia thing. Because they think (inaccurately) that Trump was unfairly wronged in all of this and they demand a hide on the wall. Well, it won't be Sussmann's.
Well with any luck the whole era will soon disappear over the horizon in the rear-view mirror, and we'll look back on it as a bad time that we got through.

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