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The most recent grand jury subpoenas for documents came after Durham charged Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann with lying to the FBI in a September 2016 meeting.ĭurham was appointed special counsel by former Attorney General William Barr in October 2020, but kept it secret so as not to interfere in the 2020 election. In September, Durham issued a new set of subpoenas, including to a law firm with close ties to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, an indication that he could be trying to build a broader criminal case, according to people briefed on the matter.īut so far, Durham’s two-year probe into the FBI’s Russia investigation hasn’t brought about the cases Republicans hoped it would. The New York Times first reported Danchenko’s arrest.
Attorneys for Danchenko did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The call with the chamber of commerce president was a reason the Steele dossier noted a “well-developed conspiracy of cooperation” between the Trump campaign and Russia.ĭanchenko appeared in the Eastern District of Virginia later Thursday and was released by the federal court judge on a $100,000 unsecured bond.
special counsel’s probe into the origins of the FBI’s investigation between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. In another, prosecutors suggest Danchenko made up an anonymous phone call he said he believed came from a Russian-American chamber of commerce leader. Igor Danchenko, a Russian analyst who was the primary source behind the Steele dossier was arrested on Thursday as part of the U.S.
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