course of their work for Ukraine, hadn't registered under FARA.

Craig was interviewed twice by the special counsel team -- once in the fall of 2017, at which time he was represented by Skadden's general counsel, and a second time in March 2018, by which point he had retained his own counsel. Days after the second interview, special counsel prosecutor Andrew Weissmann informed Craig that his case was being transferred to the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.

The impression Craig's attorneys were given was that the special counsel was concerned about staying within the scope of its mandate. The case concerning Craig was transferred alongside two related inquiries, CNN has reported.

Presentation to prosecutors

The US attorney's office appeared to be devoting significant resources to the matters.Craig's attorneys held a series of meetings with federal prosecutors from Manhattan and the Justice Department's national security division beginning in late August 2018 that included a detailed presentation the lawyers gave to the US Attorney's office in early September.

In attendance at an hours-long meeting in Manhattan in early September were US Attorney Geoffrey Berman, deputy US Attorney Rob Khuzami and the office's chief counsel Audrey Strauss, as well as more than a dozen other prosecutors.

At issue was contact Craig made in late 2012 with several newspaper reporters the time of the public release of a report he had written for Skadden's client, the Ukranian Ministry of Justice, on the trial of Yulia Tymoshenko, the former prime minister of Ukraine. The inquiry from prosecutors concerned whether Craig had