Prosecutors said Danchenko lied about the identity of his own sources for the material he gave to Steele. Former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele of Orbis Business Intelligence compiled the Trump dossier. As it turned out, the FBI used material from the dossier to support applications for warrantless surveillance of a Trump campaign official, Carter Page, even though the FBI never was able to corroborate a single allegation in the dossier.įILE - A view of the building where offices of Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd are located, in central London, Jan. Prosecutors said that if Danchenko had been more honest about his sources, the FBI might not have treated the dossier so credulously.
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Trump derided the dossier as fake news and a political witch hunt when it became public in 2017.ĭanchenko, by his own admission, was responsible for 80% of the raw intelligence in the dossier and half of the accompanying analysis, though trial testimony indicated that Danchenko was shocked and dismayed about how Steele presented the material and portrayed it as factual when Danchenko considered it more to be rumor and speculation. Most famously, it alleged that the Russians could have blackmail material on Trump for his supposed interactions with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel. The Danchenko case was the first of the three to delve deeply into the origins of the "Steele dossier," a compendium of allegations compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele that Trump's 2016 presidential campaign was colluding with the Kremlin. The sole conviction - an FBI agent admitted altering an email related to the surveillance of a former Trump aide - was for conduct uncovered not by Durham but by the Justice Department's inspector general, and the two cases that Durham took to trials ended in across-the-board acquittals.
Federal Courthouse in Washington, May 17, 2022.ĭespite hopes by Trump supporters that the prosecutor would uncover a sweeping conspiracy within the FBI and other agencies to derail his candidacy, and then his presidency, the investigation over the course of more than three years failed to produce evidence that met those expectations. FILE - Special Counsel John Durham departs the U.S.
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