The United States District Judge Anthony Trenga acquitted a Russian analyst, Igor Danchenko, on one of five counts against him after John Durham charged him with making false statements to the FBI.
Judge Anthony Trenga said last week that he agreed with the defense, and he dismissed one of the five charges against Danchenko related to his communications with Dolan as per Reuters. Danchenko was accused of misleading the FBI by claiming he never talked to Charles Dolan, a Democratic operative, about anything in the Steele dossier, when in fact they had communicated in writing.
Trenga ruled that the criminal statutes on false statement charges, “are not to be loosely constructed”, and that the “burden is on the questioner to pin the witness down”, as per Fox News.
Who is Judge Anthony Trenga?
Anthony John Trenga is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia as well as a judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. He was born in the year 1949 in Wilmerding, Pennsylvania.
The 73-year-old graduated from Mercersburg Academy in 1967 and received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Princeton University in 1971. Trenga received a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1974 and an LL.M from Duke University Law School.
He worked as a clerk to Judge Ted Dalton of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia from 1974 to 1975. From 1975 to 1987, he was in private practice in Washington, D.C with the law firm Sachs, Greenebaum & Tayler.
Trenga was a managing partner at Hazel & Thomas in Alexandria, Virginia from 1987 to 1998. From 1998 to 2008, he was a managing partner with Miller & Chevalier. On July 17, 2008, he was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat vacated by Walter DeKalb Kelley Jr.
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The United States Senate confirmed him on September 26, 2008, and received his commission on October 14, 2008. He assumed senior status on June 1, 2021.
