UPDATE 1-Former White House counsel Craig not guilty in Ukraine case -media

Greg Craig, who had served as former President Barack Obama's top White House lawyer, was found not guilty on Wednesday of charges that he lied about work he performed for Ukraine, according to media reports.

In a case that grew out of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, Craig was accused of lying about a legal review he conducted in 2012, after he left the White House, that largely vindicated the prosecution of a political enemy of Viktor Yanukovich, the Russian-aligned president of Ukraine at the time. But a jury in federal court in Washington, D.C., acquitted Craig, 74, of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), which requires disclosure of lobbying work on behalf of a foreign government, according to the Washington Post.

Craig had faced up to five years in prison if convicted. Judge Amy Berman Jackson in August dismissed a second charge of making false statements about that activity.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, the New York law firm that produced the report, agreed in January to turn over the $4.6 million it was paid and retroactively register as a foreign agent as part of a settlement with the Justice Department. Skadden had produced the 187-page report at the behest of Paul Manafort, the former chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign who is currently serving a 7-1/2-year prison sentence for lobbying violations and financial crimes.