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- - - - Danchenko has been charged with false statements to federal officials during his 2017 interviews with the FBI.
        
        At all times relevant to this Indictment, DANCHENKO maintained communications with a Russian national (“Russian Sub-Source-I”) based in a foreign country (“Country-1”) who, according to DANCHENKO, acted as one of DANCHENKO’s primary sources of information for allegations contained in the Company Reports. DANCHENKO and [Galkina] had initially met as children in Russia, and remained friends thereafter.
        
        March 1026, Danchenko introduced Dolan to Galkina for obvious business reasons, and then they all continued to communicate, both with Danchenko included and without him.
        
        Falsely stating to FBI agents on June 15, 2017 that he had never “spoken with PR Executive-1” (Dolan) about the dossier allegations.
        
        On March 16, 2017, falsely stating to FBI agents that “he received a late July 2016 telephone call from an individual who Danchenko believed was ‘probably’ [Millian"], when in truth and in fact, and as the defendant well knew, [Millian] never called Danchenko.”
        
        Sergei Millian
        
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        On May 18, 2017, falsely stating to FBI agents that he “‘was under the impression’ that a late July 2016 telephone call he received was from [Millian']” when in fact Millian never called Danchenko.
        
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  - - - Charles Dolan Jr.
        
        PR Executive-1
        
        In 2006, the Kremlin had signed a deal with Ketchum, the PR firm where Dolan rose to become senior vice president for public affairs. As part of the agreement, according to the indictment, Ketchum was to “handle global public relations for the Russian government” as well as state-owned energy company Gazprom.
        
        Gazprom
        
        a Russian majority state-owned multinational energy corporation headquartered in the Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg.
        
        Dolan was Danchenko’s primary source for a section of the dossier that analyzed Paul Manafort’s resignation as Trump’s campaign chairman in August of 2016
        
        That August, Danchenko emailed Dolan, saying he was working on a “project against Trump” and asking for “[a]ny thought, rumor, allegation” related to Manafort, who had recently resigned as Trump’s campaign chairman amid media investigations of his past work for pro-Russia Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych.
        The following day, Dolan responded to Danchenko, claiming that “I had a drink with a GOP friend of mine” who had dished the dirt. Dolan’s email stated that a Trump campaign staffer, identifiable as former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, “who hates [Manafort] and still speaks to Trump regularly played a role. He is said to be doing a happy dance over it.
        “I think the bottom line is that in addition to the Ukraine revelations, a number of people wanted [Manafort] gone,” Dolan added. “It is a very sharp elbows crowd.”
        
        The indictment states that had Danchenko not lied to the FBI about Dolan’s involvement in the dossier, investigators would have been able to grill Dolan about his time at the hotel, what he heard or did not hear from employees about Trump, and whether he spoke with Danchenko about the claims.
        
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        Paul Manfort
        
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        Corey Lewandowski
        
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        Ketchum Inc. is a global public relations firm, offering marketing, branding, and corporate communications services
      - she obtained the controversial Steele dossier just a day before it surfaced in the media. Despite Hill's previous work with Steele, she said she had no knowledge of the dossier before Strobe Talbott, the former president of the Brookings Institution, provided it to her. Talbott, she said, had received a copy of the dossier. It's unclear how he obtained the dossier, which sparked a media firestorm after BuzzFeed released it in 2017.
    - - D.C. think tank which has nearly half-a-billion dollars in assets and deep ties to political leaders on the left.
  - - - Michael Gaeta
        
        Victoria Nuland was who approved FBI agent Michael Gaeta to meet with Steele in Rome on July 5, 2016. Gaeta and Steele had worked together years earlier on an investigation into bribery in FIFA, the international soccer organization.
        
        On July 28, at his FBI colleague’s request, Michael Gaeta passed along copies of the two reports he had received from Steele. As Horowitz later found, the first one (dated June 20, 2016) provided by Steele to Gaeta, would later become “one of four of Steele’s reports that the FBI relied upon to support” its surveillance applications for Carter Page.
      - both Ohrs met in Washington with British intelligence operative Christopher Steele. Nellie Ohr testified that she had known Steele from past encounters and learned at that July 31, 2016, meeting at the Mayflower Hotel that Steele, like herself, was working for Fusion GPS on Trump-Russia research. She said she learned that Steele had concerns that he hoped the DOJ or FBI would investigate, with help from her husband.
        
        Nellie Hauke Ohr
        
        opposition research (Oct. 2015)
        
        Ohr sent reams of open-source intelligence to her husband, Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, and on some occasions to at least three DOJ prosecutors: Lisa Holtyn, Ivana Nizich and Joseph Wheatley.
        
        Bruce Ohr
        
        Associate Deputy Attorney General
        
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        Sept. 21, 2016: At the direction of Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele briefs the N.Y. Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Yahoo! News, and CNN.7
        
        Oct. 3, 2016: FBI’s CFH team meets with Christopher Steele.
        
        Oct. 18, 2016: State Department official Jonathan Winer, who has “a business association” with Christopher Steele, provides Steele with a memo prepared by Cody Shearer (brother-in-law to Strobe Talbott) that Winer received from Sidney Blumenthal.
        
        Oct. 19, 2016 Christopher Steele provides the FBI with the Shearer memorandum, titled “FSB Interview,” and explains that it is “potentially significant” because “the reporting is remarkably similar to our own, albeit from a completely different sourcing chain, and therefore could be important collateral, especially on the reported Ritz Carlton incident in 2013.”
        
        Oct. 31, 2016: Mother Jones publishes article based on information from Steele.
        
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        Jonathan Winer
        
        Sidney Blumenthal
        
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        special envoy to Libya
        
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        the defendant and Tech Executive-1 also had met and communicated with another
        law partner at Law Firm-1
        
        Perkins Coie lawyer Marc Elias hired the company that compiled a dossier with allegations about Donald Trump’s Russia connections, the law firm confirmed. Perkins Coie hired Fusion GPS in April 2016
        
        Fusion GPS
        
        Glenn Simpson
        
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        Fusion GPS Founder
        
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        Mary Jacoby
        
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        commercial research and strategic intelligence firm based in Washington, D.C.
        
        April 1, 2016: Fusion GPS enters into a contract with Perkins Coie.
        
        Peter Frisch
        
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        Fusion GPS Co-Founder
        
        Laura Seago
        
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        On or about September 15 , 2016, Campaign Lawyer-1 exchanged emails with the Clinton Campaign's campaign manager, communications director, and foreign policy advisor concerning the Russian Bank-1 allegations that SUSSMANN had recently shared with Reporter-1.
        
        Jake Sullivan
        
        Clinton Campaign foreign policy adviser
        
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        Robbie Mook
        
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        Clinton Campaign campaign manager
        
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        Jennifer Palmieri
        
        Clinton Campaign Communications director
        
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        John Podesta
        
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        Clinton Campaign Chairman
  - - - In April 2016, Sussmann hired CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that publicly triggered the Russiagate saga by lodging the still unproven claim that Russia was behind the hack of Democratic National Committee emails released by WikiLeaks.
        
        Early August 2016: Perkins Coie partner Michael Sussman, counsel for the DNC, meets with Christopher Steele and discusses a possible connection between Alfa Bank and Trump Tower
        
        Alfa Bank
        
        Russian Bank-1
        
        ALFA-BANK JSC, is the largest of the private banks in Russia
        
        One of the memos, dated Sept. 14, 2016, alleges that Alfa Bank executives Mikhail Fridman, Peter Aven and German Khan took part in the Kremlin’s election meddling.
        
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        Mikhail Fridman
        
        Peter Aven
        
        German Khan
        
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        On or about September 19, 2016... Met with the FBI General Counsel...provided ...purported data and “white papers” that allegedly demonstrated a covert communications channel between the Trump Organization and a Russia-based bank (“Russian Bank-1”)
        
        the defendant had assembled and conveyed the allegations to the FBI on behalf of at least two specific clients, including (i) a technology executive (“Tech Executive-1”) at a U.S.-based Internet company (“Internet Company1”), and (ii) the Clinton Campaign.
        
        Rodney Joffe
        
        Tech Executive-1
        
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        April Lorenzen: "Tea Leaves"
        
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        On or about September I, 2016, SUSSMANN met with Reporter-I
        
        On or about September 12, 2016, SUSSMANN spoke with Campaign Lawyer-1 via phone regarding SUSSMANN's efforts to communicate with Newspaper-I regarding the Russian Bank-1 allegations.
        
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        Franklin Foer
        
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        James A. Baker
        
        FBI General Counsel
        
        SUSSMANN stated falsely that he was not acting on behalf of any client, which led the FBI General Counsel to understand that SUSSMANN was conveying the allegations as a good citizen and not as an advocate for any client;
        
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        Scott Hellman
        
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        FBI Special Agent
        
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        Shawn Henry
        
        After bringing CrowdStrike on board, Sussmann pushed aggressively to publicize the firm's conclusion that Russian government hackers had attacked the DNC server, according to a December 2016 account in the New York Times.
        
        In December 2017 testimony that was declassified only in May 2020, Henry admitted that his firm was akin to a bank examiner who believes the vault has been robbed – but has no proof of how. CrowdStrike, Henry disclosed, "did not have concrete evidence" that alleged Russian hackers removed any data from the DNC servers.
        
        VIPS: NSA is able to identify both the sender and recipient when hacking is involved. Thanks largely to the material released by Edward Snowden, we can provide a full picture of NSA’s extensive domestic data-collection network including Upstream programs like Fairview, Stormbrew and Blarney. In sum, given what we know of NSA’s existing capabilities, it beggars belief that NSA would be unable to identify anyone – Russian or not – attempting to interfere in a U.S. election by hacking.
        
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- - - - Shearer wrote that he relied on information from an unnamed Turkish businessman who claimed to have “excellent contacts within the FSB.” The businessman said the FSB source knew of a “cut out” between the Trump campaign and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Trump campaign was “also involved hacking his opponents and trying to alter votes on election day,” Shearer’s source claimed.
        
        Shearer's raw collection of notes -- which Republicans are calling a second dossier -- made its way to Steele on this path: from Shearer to Blumenthal, who gave it to an official at the State Department, who then passed it along to Steele.
- - - - Galkina noted in two separate e-mails that she was expecting Dolan to get her a State Department job in a Hillary Clinton administration.
        
        Fired from Webzilla, Galkina falsely implicated the Web-services company in the hacking of DNC e-mails and also seemingly invented a story about Michael Cohen visiting Prague (a claim debunked by the Mueller report).
        
        Aleksej Gubarev
        
        Cyprus-based Russian and founder of server provider Webzilla
        
        Gubarev is accused in a dossier memo by Steele dated Dec. 13, 2016, of working with Russian hackers to infiltrate Democrats’ computer systems, and of having been recruited by Russian spy services.
        
        The Journal reported that Galkina’s manager filed a report with police in the Cypriot city of Limassol saying that she drank heavily and was often late for work. One of Galkina’s former colleagues also told The Daily Caller News Foundation in August that she was a heavy drinker and often failed to show up on time to work.
        
        Galkina also told Danchenko that Page, the former Trump campaign aide, met secretly in Moscow in July 2017 with Kremlin official Igor Diveykin to discuss the exchange of blackmail material related to Trump and Clinton.
        
        Sevastyan Kaptsugovich
        
        Seva Kapsovich
        
        In addition to the allegations against Gubarev, Steele’s dossier memo asserted that a Russian man, Seva Kaptsugovich, took part in the hacks of Democrats’ computer networks.
        Kaptsugovich was likely not involved in the cyberattacks, the McClatchy news agency reported in 2017, saying he had been in prison since 2013 on child pornography charges. Kaptsugovich is from Perm, hometown of Danchenko and Galkina.
- - - - Stefan Halper contacted Papadopoulos out of the blue on Sept. 2, 2016 with a compelling offer. The professor offered to fly Papadopoulos to London to meet to discuss writing an academic paper about Mediterranean energy security issues for $3,000.
        
        Stefan Halper
        
        University of Cambridge professor and member of the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar (CIS), which was founded by officers from British intelligence agencies.
        
        Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuse, while not identifying Halper by name, added many details concerning his extensive role in spying on the Trump campaign: Halper secretly recorded several conversations with Trump campaign advisors Carter Page and George Papadopoulos and, more troublingly, the FBI tasked Halper to tape an extensive conversation with Sam Clovis—a co-chair of the Trump presidential campaign.
        
        Aug. 20, 2016: Source 2’s first consensually monitored meeting with Carter Page.
        
        Carter Page
        
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        Sept. 1, 2016: Source 2’s only consensually monitored meeting with Sam Clovis.
        
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        Azra Turk
        
        The New York Times reported Thursday that the FBI sent a woman using the alias "Azra Turk" to meet Papadopoulos at a London bar in September 2016, where she asked directly if the Trump team was working with Russia.
        
        Papadopoulos: “Azra Turk clearly was not FBI.She was CIA and affiliated with Turkish intel. She could hardly speak English and was tasked to meet me about my work in the energy sector offshore Israel/Cyprus which Turkey was competing with.”
    - - Australian Ambassador to the UK
        
        After Downer received a tip from Trump offsider George Papadopoulos during a drink in early May 2016 that the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton, the information then reached the FBI, who launched a counterintelligence probe into the Trump campaign on July 31.
        
        “After tense deliberations between Washington and Canberra, top Australian officials broke with diplomatic protocol and allowed the ambassador, Alexander Downer, to sit for an FBI interview to describe his meeting with the campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos.” The FBI agents summarised “their highly unusual interview” and their report helped provide the foundation for a case that became the probe headed by special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
        
        Peter Strzok
        
        Lisa Page
        
        Special Counsel to FBI Deputy Director
        
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        Chief of the Counterespionage Section
        
        Crossfire Hurricane is being opened to determine if unspecified “individual(s)” associated with the Trump campaign are “witting of and/or coordinating activities” — also unspecified — “with the Government of Russia.” He doesn’t even mention Papadopoulos.
        
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      - Strobe Talbott
        
        president of Brookings Institution from 2002 to 2017
        
        Talbott, the current president of the Brookings Institution, indicated that he was told of Steele’s work by either former national security adviser Susan Rice or former State Department official Victoria Nuland.
        
        Steele went on to provide Talbott with a copy of the dossier in November 2016. And Talbott, who was tapped in 2011 by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to chair the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Advisory Board, disseminated the dossier to his Brookings colleague, Fiona Hill in January 2017 while she was serving in the Trump administration.