Special counsel John Durham's team presented evidence suggesting Michael Sussmann billed Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential team for the thumb drives he used to push now-discredited Trump-Russia allegations to the FBI in 2016, despite Sussmann claiming he did not do so for the campaign.

Kori Arsenault, a paralegal for the Justice Department, discussed an expense report in which the expense owner was listed as “SUSSM” — Sussmann, who submitted it on Sept. 22. The allocation was marked “confidential” and charged to Hillary for America. The expense report included a Staples store receipt dated Sept. 13, and it included a two-pack of 16-gigabyte flash drives that cost $12.99. The store location, which Arsenault showed on Google Maps, was just around the corner from the Perkins offices in Washington.

The disbursement report listed the client as Hillary for America, stated “General Political Advice” was the purpose, and described it as “Sussmann Purchase of new single use flash drives for secure sharing of files 9/13/16.”

Arsenault put together other records aiming to demonstrate that Sussmann went to the FBI on behalf of the Clinton campaign, including a Perkins billing chart laying out her findings related to Sussmann billing time to the Clinton campaign. She specifically pointed to a meeting on “Communications with M Elias regarding server issue” on July 1, “Communications with M Elias regarding server issue” on July 31, “Meeting with consultant, M Elias, revisions to white paper, meeting with expert and reporter, follow up meeting” on Sept. 6, “Multiple meetings regarding confidential project, draft white paper … meetings with M Elias” on Sept. 14, and “Work and communications regarding confidential project” on Sept. 19.

During the trial Wednesday, Arsenault went through numerous Perkins calendar entries, including showing Clinton campaign-related meetings for “Marc, Michael, Fusion Team” on July 29 and for “other work and multiple telephone conferences regarding confidential project” for four to five hours on Sept. 20. She was later shown a Nov. 6 email from Sussmann to Perkins on “Time Monday September 19” that read “HFA. Work and comms regarding confidential project” for 3.3 hours. She said Sussmann now had billed approximately an hour less than before and that “I believe" Sussmann removed the phrase "work on written materials."

Charnov displayed messages showing at least some at the FBI knew he was representing the DNC or Clinton campaign, including where the FBI listed Sussmann as an attendee for a secret-level threat briefing at FBI headquarters for the DNC, DCCC, and Clinton campaign.

The defense team assistant also admitted that “September 19 is not in the chart” despite it being the date of the Baker-Sussmann meeting.

The Durham prosecutor asked him if he even knew about that meeting, and Charnov replied, “To be honest, this is the first time I’m hearing of this.” When Keilty asked him if that was a key date in this trial, Charnov said, “I don’t disagree. I just don’t have an opinion.”

Charnov also said he “was not aware” that Sussmann also went to the CIA in 2017, when Sussmann had again pushed Trump-Russia claims, and Durham says he again misled about not doing it for a client. LINK