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Trump Jr. has hired Karina Lynch of the law firm Williams and
Jensen, Lynch confirmed in an email to Reuters. She did not
respond to queries about what her role in the team would be.
ABC News reported the hiring earlier on Sunday.
Trump Jr. also hired Alan Futerfas as a lawyer after reports
detailed meetings last year between Trump Jr. and a Russian
lawyer.
Trump Jr., his father's former campaign manager Paul Manafort
and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and one of his
senior advisers, met with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya
in June 2016. That meeting was held in Trump Tower in New York
after the lawyer offered damaging information about Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
A federal special counsel and several congressional panels are
investigating allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that
Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and
potential connections between Russian officials and the Trump
campaign.
Moscow has denied any interference, and Trump says his campaign
did not collude with Russia.
Lynch's biography on her law firm website describes her as
having experience on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations. She was also investigative counsel to Senator
Charles Grassley, according to her law firm biography.
The Senate Judiciary Committee said on Friday that Trump Jr. and
Manafort had agreed to negotiate whether to be interviewed by
the panel in its Russia investigation.
(Reporting by Diane Bartz; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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