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NEW U.S. judge finds that Atty Gen. William Barr and Special Counsel Robert Mueller could have prejudiced a jury in reporting that Russia was behind a secret social media trolling campaign to interfere in the 2016 US election, which a Russian company has been charged with. BUT.. 
... U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich of D.C. DENIED a motion by the company, Concord Management and Consulting, (owned by 'Putin's chef' Yevgeny Prigozhin), to find the U.S. officials in contempt of court. Friedrich found that they acted in good faith, because...
they intended to help inform the public about an important matter, and Mueller's findings could be fixed by jury instruction, since they came months away before any trial, which has not been set. Friedrich unsealed her May 28 opinion today after months of sealed litigation.
