ALEXANDRIA, Va.—A key source for the anti-Donald Trump Steele dossier was acquitted on all counts by jurors in Virginia on Oct. 18. Igor Danchenko, a Russian national, was acquitted on four counts of lying to the government after about 10 hours of deliberations. “We’ve known all along that Mr. Danchenko was innocent. We’re happy the […]
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—FBI agents investigating the anti-Donald Trump dossier should have done a better job investigating the truthfulness of its source, special counsel John Durham said in closing arguments for the source’s trial on Oct. 17. FBI agents should have performed a “detailed review” of Igor Danchenko, the source, and his statements, including a behavioral assessment, […]
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—A U.S. judge tossed one of the five counts against a key source for the anti-Donald Trump Steele dossier on Oct. 14, ruling that prosecutors did not present enough evidence for jurors to consider the charge. U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled that Igor Danchenko, the source, did not […]
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Key moments in the third day of the trial of Igor Danchenko, a key source for the anti-Donald Trump dossier by his own admission, included the revelation that another person connected with the dossier was supportive of Trump’s political rival Hillary Clinton. Clinton helped fund the dossier, which was compiled by ex-British spy Christopher […]
Special counsel John Durham can keep a list of witnesses he plans to call in an upcoming trial secret, a judge ruled on Oct. 7. U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga, a George W. Bush appointee, approved a motion from Durham’s team. The witness list will be sealed and will remain under seal until further order from […]
Special counsel John Durham and his team cannot tell jurors about how the primary source for the anti-Donald Trump dossier has had links to Russian intelligence, a U.S. judge ruled on Oct. 4. The FBI opened an investigation into Igor Danchenko, the dossier source, after a colleague of Danchenko’s tipped off authorities, saying Danchenko had […]
An attempt by Igor Danchenko to get charges of lying to the FBI dismissed failed Sept. 29, meaning he will likely go on trial in October. U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga, a George W. Bush appointee, declined to throw out any of the five charges filed against Danchenko after hearing arguments from special counsel John […]
Top U.S. senators are pressing the FBI’s director and the attorney general for answers on how the government paid the primary source for the anti-Donald Trump dossier, which has been proven to be full of baseless information. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the top […]
A key source for the anti-Donald Trump dossier paid for by Democrats has confirmed that he was on the FBI’s payroll for years. Igor Danchenko, who provided information to dossier author Christopher Steele, “was a vital source of information to the U.S. government during the course of his cooperation and was relied upon to build […]
The primary subsource for the infamous anti-Donald Trump “Steele dossier” was paid by the FBI for years and said in an email that he was working on a project “against Trump,” according to a new filing from special counsel John Durham’s team. Igor Danchenko was made a paid FBI confidential informant in March 2017, prosecutors […]
The most widely circulated claim in British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s infamous anti-Donald Trump dossier will be contested during an upcoming trial, special counsel John Durham’s team revealed in a court document unsealed on Sept. 13. The claim that Trump engaged in lurid sexual activity at a Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow, featured in Steele’s dossier, will be contested […]
A key source for the anti-Trump dossier paid for by Hillary Clinton’s campaign has asked a federal judge to throw out charges filed against him after he allegedly lied to federal agents about where he got the information he fed the dossier’s author. Igor Danchenko, a Russian national, says that the five false statement charges […]
Special counsel John Durham asked a federal court to send out 30 subpoenas for testimony in the pending trial against research analyst Igor Danchenko, who was the alleged main source for the discredited “Steele dossier” that targeted former President Donald Trump. In a filing on Wednesday, Durham’s team said, “It is respectfully requested that the Clerk […]
“Just let that sit for a second. The guy who wrote the Steele dossier and was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to do it—Christopher Steele—by the DNC and Hillary campaign was introduced to a sub-source by Fiona Hill, the very lady who went into the Trump White House and then conjured up the Ukraine […]
Igor Danchenko, the primary source for Christopher Steele’s dossier, has been indicted on a five-count charge of making false statements to the FBI. Danchenko is the third person to be arrested as part of John Durham’s ongoing probe. Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith was convicted of doctoring a document, and former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer […]
Federal agents on Thursday arrested the primary researcher of the Steele dossier—Russian analyst Igor Danchenko. A federal grand jury is charging him with five counts of lying to the FBI. This is part of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation of the origins of the FBI’s probe of the 2016 Trump campaign.
