Robert Mueller charges attorney with making false statements to special counsel’s office

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Special counsel Robert Mueller has charged an attorney for making false statements to the FBI and his office, which is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Alex Van Der Zwaan was charged Feb. 16 with “willfully and knowingly making materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statements” to both the special counsel’s office and FBI investigators.

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