US Prosecutor General was suspected of concealing contacts with the Russian ambassador

US Prosecutor General Jeff Sashns met twice with Russia Ambassador to Washington Sergei Kislyak before the election of the American president. This was written by The Washington Post with reference to representatives in the Ministry of Justice.

According to the sources of the publication, one of these meetings took place in September 2016 in the Sashns office, which was then in the position of Senator Congress from Alabam. It is this period that the US intelligence services are called the “peak of the Russian hacker campaign”, designed to influence the election race.

Earlier, during the hearing in the Senate, before his appointment to the post of Prosecutor General of Sashns, in response to a direct question about the contacts of the US Presidential Administration, Donald Trump with representatives of Russia, said that he did not know anything about them.

On March 1, Sashns said that he had never met any Russian officials and did not discuss the course of the presidential campaign with them, Associated Press reports . Seshns called the data from the article by The Washington Post.

The publication notes that as the Prosecutor General of Sashns, he heads the FBI investigations and the Ministry of Justice in relation to Trump's assistants and the alleged Russian intervention in the elections. At the end of February, Sashns stated that he would “take self -industry” during the investigation against the Trump team so that the FBI and the Ministry of Justice remain “independent”.

The Democratic Party called on Sashns to resign in connection with the publication at The Washington Post, Reuters reports. The party leader in the House of Representatives of Nancy Peloshi indicated that he lied under the oath of Congress.

At the end of January, US President Donald Trump fired the acting Prosecutor General Sally Yates after criticism of his decree on the tightening of migration policy. In her place, one of Trump's first supporters in his presidential campaign Jeff Sashns was appointed .

Earlier, Trump's adviser Michael Flynn resigned after the scandal due to contacts with Kislyak. The reason was the information that in December 2016, the ex-adviser discussed by telephone with the Russian diplomat a possible cancellation of sanctions against the Russian Federation. Flynn himself later explained that he really spoke with the ambassador, but the conversation was about the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats from the United States.