Lab-made Covid strain - Steele dossier trial - Florida voting arrests

A jury on Tuesday found Igor Danchenko — a private researcher who was a primary source for a 2016 [Steele dossier] of allegations about former president Donald Trump’s ties to Russia — not guilty of lying to the FBI about where he got his information. Defense attorneys argued that Danchenko believed what he was telling agents was true.
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Juror Joel Greene said in an interview that there were no holdouts in the deliberations and that jurors were “pretty unanimous” in how they viewed the case. Richard Grenell, who served as acting director of national intelligence in the Trump administration, tweeted that the verdict “doesn’t clear up” the “outlandish claims” in the Steele dossier.
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In May, a jury in D.C. federal court acquitted a cybersecurity lawyer, who also was accused by the special counsel of lying to the FBI. A former FBI lawyer was sentenced to one year of probation after admitting in a 2020 plea deal with Durham that he had altered a government email used to justify secret surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser.