![]() Things changed in the spring of 2016, after Fusion GPS got a new client, The work, he added, the probe wasn’t focussed only on Russia. “We saw indications that some of the moneyĬame from Kazakhstan, among other places, and that some of it you justĬouldn’t account for,” Simpson said. Another subject of interest was the financing of Trump’s The Russian mafia, and who played a role in the development of the Trump One of the early subjects of the inquiry, Simpson said, was Felix Sater,Ī longtime business associate of Trump’s who reportedly was linked to He added, “it evolved somewhat quickly into issues of his relationship (The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative Web site that has received funding from the hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer, has acknowledged hiring Fusion GPS to investigate candidates during the Republican Presidential primaries.) Simpson said the mandate was to carry out an “open-ended”Įxamination of Trump’s business record, including his bankruptcies, and, Law firms on cases related to “financial crime, money laundering andįraud investigations, tax evasion, that sort of thing.”īut in September or October of 2015-Simpson was vague about the exactĭate-a client hired Fusion GPS to investigate Donald Trump. Political work, he said, because “most campaigns don’t have the budgetįor the kind of services we provide.” Normally, his outfit worked for He described himself as a “document hound” who Simpson, who founded Fusion GPS in 2010, began his testimony by explaining hisīackground as an investigative reporter at the Wall Street Journal andĪt Roll Call. That usually remains hidden: paid opposition research. ItĪlso provides a glimpse into an aspect of modern political campaigns Genesis of the Steele dossier and Steele’s contacts with the F.B.I. Relating to his clients, his testimony provides new details about the ![]() Refused to answer some of the questions put to him, particularly those With Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS. Lengthy interview that the committee’s lawyers carried out, last August, The Judiciary Committee, responded by releasing a transcript of a Investigation, and, on Tuesday, Dianne Feinstein, the senior Democrat on This looked likeĪnother G.O.P. effort to undermine the credibility of the Russia Last week, in a letter to the Justiceĭepartment, Charles Grassley, the head of the committee, and LindseyĪsked the department to investigate Steele for possibly lying to the F.B.I.,īut they didn’t provide any evidence to back up the request. Have raised more questions about the dossier and the role it played in Supposed to be investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, In recent weeks, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, who are Informed President-elect Trump about the contents of the dossier. ![]() And, last January, JamesĬomey, while he was still the F.B.I. Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager. Used the dossier to obtain secret warrants to tap the phone of Paul There have also been unconfirmed reports that the Bureau More research, but that agreement was cancelled after BuzzFeed published After the election,Īccording to the Washington Post, the Bureau agreed to pay Steele to do some took Steele’s work seriouslyĮnough to interview him before the 2016 election. However, we have also learned that the F.B.I. The one about the sex tape, haven’t been corroborated, and Trump hasĭescribed it as a “Crooked Hillary pile of garbage.” (In publishing the dossier,īuzzFeed noted that the allegations it contained were unverified and Some of the allegations in the dossier, including Washington-based intelligence firm Fusion GPS, which received fundingįrom the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s Steele dossier, including that it was commissioned by the In the past twelve months, we’ve learned a good deal more about the Trump for years, and that the Kremlin was holding incriminating materialĪbout Trump, including a sex tape from a Moscow hotel room. Government had been “cultivating, supporting, and assisting” Donald This week marks one year since BuzzFeed’s publication of the controversial “Russia dossier,” the document compiled by theįormer British spy Christopher Steele that claimed the Russian
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