Russian Known for Trump Tower Meeting Faces Charges in U.S. (4)

Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer who met with Trump campaign officials in June 2016, was accused by New York prosecutors of obstructing a U.S. money-laundering case that had broad ramifications for the countries’ relations.

Veselnitskaya is accused of submitting a misleading declaration in the suit against investment firm Prevezon Holdings Ltd. She had presented a report from a supposedly independent investigation that exonerated her client, claiming she’d “gone to great lengths” to get a copy of it. In fact, the U.S. said, she worked with Russian prosecutors to draft the findings.

“Veselnitskaya secretly schemed with a senior Russian prosecutor to ...