The Professor is alive but is being intentionally hidden for obvious reasons...he was part of the plot and the DNC while filing a bogus case doesn’t really want to have Mifsud be crossed-examine...so they’re telling the judge that they want to move on to the case since he’s dead
And a lovely amount of money is being deposited each month by a Democrat donor into a Singapore bank account.
This guy went to ground. He’ll show up in a couple years saying he was scared of Trump and his “Russian connections” so he split.
The DOJ has him in a witness protection program.