The “Tech Executive-1” whom John Durham says coordinated with the Clinton campaign to push claims of Trump-Russia collusion says he will plead the Fifth in the trial of a top Democratic cybersecurity lawyer indicted by the special counsel.

Michael Sussmann was indicted last year on charges of concealing his clients — Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the tech executive known to be Rodney Joffe, formerly of the company Neustar — from FBI general counsel James Baker when he pushed since-debunked claims of a secret back channel between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank.

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