DUH! Bruce Ohr and wife Nellie (Who refused her subpoena) met with Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska.
Justice Department official Bruce Ohr and former British spy Christopher Steele -- frequent targets of President Donald Trump's ire related to the Russia investigation -- were involved in US efforts to flip a Russian oligarch with ties to the Kremlin, The New York Times reports.
Updated 5:53 AM ET, Tue September 4, 2018
According to the Times, Ohr and Steele first discussed flipping Deripaska in November 2014 .
Working as an intermediary, Steele helped arrange a meeting between Deripaska and US officials, including Ohr, in 2015 , during which Deripaska was asked about the connections between Russian organized crime and Russian President Vladimir Putin's government, the Times reported, citing a person familiar with the events.
The second time US officials made contact with Deripaska was in September 2016, two months after the FBI began investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, the Times reported.
FBI agents showed up uninvited and unannounced at a home Deripaska has in New York and grilled the Russian oligarch about whether his former business partner Paul Manafort had worked as a liaison between Russia and the Trump campaign, according to the newspaper.
Weeks earlier, in August, Manafort left Trump's campaign, which he had led for five months.
Deripaska told investigators their theories about Manafort's role on the campaign were "preposterous" and disputed any potential connections between Russia and the Trump campaign, a person familiar with the exchange told the Times.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/01/politics/bruce...index.html
Clinton and the FBI paid Steel through Fusion GPS and Steel paid Russians for information.
On Monday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that US agencies "have been working in sometimes brutal ways, trying to recruit Russian citizens and put moral and other kinds of pressure on them" and that the Times' report showed "the obvious fact of recent US practices."
Justice Department official Bruce Ohr and former British spy Christopher Steele -- frequent targets of President Donald Trump's ire related to the Russia investigation -- were involved in US efforts to flip a Russian oligarch with ties to the Kremlin, The New York Times reports.
Updated 5:53 AM ET, Tue September 4, 2018
According to the Times, Ohr and Steele first discussed flipping Deripaska in November 2014 .
Working as an intermediary, Steele helped arrange a meeting between Deripaska and US officials, including Ohr, in 2015 , during which Deripaska was asked about the connections between Russian organized crime and Russian President Vladimir Putin's government, the Times reported, citing a person familiar with the events.
The second time US officials made contact with Deripaska was in September 2016, two months after the FBI began investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, the Times reported.
FBI agents showed up uninvited and unannounced at a home Deripaska has in New York and grilled the Russian oligarch about whether his former business partner Paul Manafort had worked as a liaison between Russia and the Trump campaign, according to the newspaper.
Weeks earlier, in August, Manafort left Trump's campaign, which he had led for five months.
Deripaska told investigators their theories about Manafort's role on the campaign were "preposterous" and disputed any potential connections between Russia and the Trump campaign, a person familiar with the exchange told the Times.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/01/politics/bruce...index.html
Clinton and the FBI paid Steel through Fusion GPS and Steel paid Russians for information.
On Monday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that US agencies "have been working in sometimes brutal ways, trying to recruit Russian citizens and put moral and other kinds of pressure on them" and that the Times' report showed "the obvious fact of recent US practices."
