The Clinton campaign agreed to a civil penalty of $8,000 and the DNC $105,000, according to a pair of conciliatory agreements that were attached to the letter sent to the Coolidge Reagan Foundation.
The Clinton campaign and DNC had argued that the payments had been described accurately, but agreed, according to the documents, to settle without conceding to avoid further legal costs. “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. But on FEC forms, the Clinton campaign classified the spending as legal services. In information available on its website, the FBI writes that "informants are individuals who supply information to the FBI on a confidential basis," adding that "they are not hired or trained employees of the FBI, although they may receive compensation in some instances for their information and expenses.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.
The reference to "taxpayers money" is likewise misleading because it is not unusual for the FBI to pay informants and the agency does not make a secret out of it. The FBI as part of its investigation was seeking to "corroborate or refute" the serious allegations. to deliver campaign-destroying information" on Trump. It is also a mischaracterization of the FBI's work to say it sought to incentivize "a spy. While Steele has indeed previously worked for the British foreign intelligence service MI6, he did not represent it in this case, and acted as a private citizen, not a "foreign spy." However, a number of details in the tweet above and other social media comments are not entirely accurate and in some cases misleading.
Steele was offered anywhere up to a million dollars."Īccording to Auten, Steele was made the $1 million offer by the agency in October 2016 during a meeting in the U.K. Special counsel John Durham, who's leading the case against Danchenko, asked FBI supervisory analyst Brian Auten on October 11 if the FBI ever offered to provide Steele with any incentives in exchange for information corroborating his dossier's allegations.Īuten responded: "Yes, it did.
Prosecutors now accuse Danchenko of lying about the information provided and his sources, an accusation he denies. It included allegations of contact between the Trump campaign and Russian government officials, including those (as it was later established) made by the report's main source Danchenko.
#WHO PAID FOR TRUMP DOSSIER FREE#
The controversial " Steele dossier" was first triggered initially by GOP-linked website the Washington Free Beacon and later picked up for "opposition research" by Democrats during the 2016 presidential campaign. While the tweet doesn't state so explicitly, drawing on the context suggests that it is referencing Christopher Steele. That's so much worse than Watergate.- Bonchie October 11, 2022 I know no one cares anymore, but today we learned that the FBI tried to use taxpayer money to pay a foreign spy $1M to deliver campaign-destroying information on Donald Trump prior to the 2016 election.
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