Subject of investigations and conspiracy theories Investigations Conspiracy theories.intelligence community Varied observations of dossier's veracity Dossier's veracity and Steele's reputation Reputation in the U.S.Veracity and corroboration status of specific allegations Cultivation of Trump through time Russian assistance to the Trump campaign Manafort's and others' cooperation with Russian efforts Russian conversations confirmed Kompromat and "golden showers" allegations Role of Agalarovs Trump viewed as under Putin's influence Kremlin's "Romanian" hackers and use of WikiLeaks, and Trump campaign reaction Timing of release of hacked emails Manafort and kickback payments from Yanukovych Page met with Rosneft officials Brokerage of Rosneft privatization Trump's attempts to lift sanctions Cohen and alleged Prague visit Republican position on Russian conflict with Ukraine and related sanctions Relations with Europe and NATO Spy withdrawn from Russian embassy Botnets and porn traffic by hackers.political figures Russian spy withdrawn Use of botnets and porn traffic by hackers Allegations Cultivation of Trump Conspiracy, cooperation, and back channel communication Why Russia supports Trump Changing relationships Kompromat and blackmail: Trump Kompromat: Clinton Kremlin pro-Trump and anti-Clinton Key roles of Manafort, Cohen, and Page DNC email hack, leaks, and misinformation Kickbacks and quid pro quo agreements to lift sanctions Cultivation of various U.S.Discrepancies between sources and their allegations Risk of contamination with Russian disinformation considered Authorship and sources Christopher Steele Steele's sources Igor Danchenko Arrest and indictment Value as FBI source Olga Galkina Sergei Millian Charles Dolan Jr.History Two research operations and confusion between them Republican operation does not produce dossier Democratic operation produces dossier What the DNC, Clinton campaign, and Steele knew Hints of existence Mother Jones story Post-election events Briefings of Obama and Trump Publication by BuzzFeed News and reactions Format Legal status and comparison to Trump Tower meeting Legacy.Trump, who has railed against the dossier for years, released a statement celebrating the agreement and once again slamming the dossier as “a Hoax funded by the DNC and the Clinton Campaign.”Ī DNC spokesperson played down the decision, saying: “We settled aging and silly complaints from the 2016 election about ‘purpose descriptions’ in our FEC report.” The lawyer representing both the campaign and the DNC did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A special counsel assigned to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe charged one of Steele’s sources with lying to the FBI and charged a cybersecurity lawyer who worked for Clinton’s campaign with lying to the FBI during a 2016 meeting in which he relayed concerns about the Russia-based Alfa Bank. “By intentionally obscuring their payments through Perkins Coie and failing to publicly disclose the true purpose of those payments,” the campaign and DNC “were able to avoid publicly reporting on their statutorily required FEC disclosure forms the fact that they were paying Fusion GPS to perform opposition research on Trump with the intent of influencing the outcome of the 2016 presidential election,” the initial complaint had read.ĭocuments have shown the FBI invested significant resources attempting to corroborate the dossier and relied substantially on it to obtain surveillance warrants targeting former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.īut the dossier has been largely discredited since its publication, with core aspects of the material exposed as unsupported and unproven rumors. But on FEC forms, the Clinton campaign classified the spending as legal services. The Clinton campaign hired Perkins Coie, which then hired Fusion GPS, a research and intelligence firm, to conduct opposition research on Republican candidate Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. That’s according to documents sent Tuesday to the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, which had filed an administrative complaint in 2018 accusing the Democrats of misreporting payments made to a law firm during the 2016 campaign to obscure the spending. NEW YORK (AP) - Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee have agreed to pay $113,000 to settle a Federal Election Commission investigation into whether they violated campaign finance law by misreporting spending on research that eventually became the infamous Steele dossier.
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