Craig Pushed Skadden to Hire Manafort Relative, U.S. Says (1)

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 May 10, asked U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington to dismiss the case.

The prosecutors’ description of the relative appears to match that of one of Manafort’s daughters. In papers filed on May ...