House Committee Refers Erik Prince For Lying In Russia Probe

Trump ally and billionaire military contractor Erik Prince could be the latest member of Trump’s circle to be swallowed up by the Russia investigation.

That’s because House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said his committee plans to make a criminal referral to the Department of Justice to investigate Prince’s possible lies to Congress.

The lies revolve around a meeting in the secluded Seychelles islands that Prince had with a Russian businessman with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

View the complete April 30 article by Emily Singer on the National Memo website here.