pleaded not guilty, and testified in his own defense. Prosecutors did not call Manafort as a witness. The jury was informed by the judge not to consider possible offenses committed before October 2013 because the statute of limitations for those actions had run out. On September 4, 2019, the jury acquitted Craig after less than five hours of deliberation. Berman, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, wrote in his 2022 memoirs that the acquittal "was vindication, but the case should never have been brought. .... The case was too weak to be brought. It was inappropriate to be brought. And that's what the trial showed." In 2022, following the publication of Berman's book, the Senate Judiciary Committee opened an investigation into allegations that the Trump administration sought to use the U.S. Attorney's office in SDNY for partisan reasons. Personal life Craig is married to Derry Noyes. The two were married on July 27, 1974, in New Canaan, Connecticut. Derry is the daughter of Eliot Noyes, the noted industrial designer known for his work on the IBM Selectric typewriter. Derry Craig is a graphic designer. Craig lives in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, in a home purchased for $2 million in 1990. See also Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (2019) References Bibliography Kim Eisler, Masters of the Game: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Firm (Thomas Dunne Books, 2010). External links Official biography from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP |- 1945 births Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge American lawyers American political consultants Clinton administration personnel Directors of Policy Planning Harvard University alumni Lawyers from Washington, D.C. Living people Obama administration personnel People acquitted of crimes People from Cleveland Park People from Middlebury, Vermont Phillips Exeter Academy alumni Politicians from Norfolk, Virginia Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom people Washington, D.C., Democrats White House Counsels Williams & Connolly people Yale Law School alumni Public defenders Members of the defense counsel for the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton