Jared Novick, a former business associate of Rodney Joffe, launched a Trump-Russia data-mining project in 2016, a task the witness said made him feel 'extremely uncomfortable' because it felt like 'opposition research.'
Jared Novick, formerly the CEO of BitVoyant in 2016, provided new details about Joffe, known as “Technology Executive-1” in special counsel John Durham’s indictment of Democratic cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussmann, and about Joffe’s efforts to use his perch in the cybersecurity world to snoop on associates of then-candidate Donald Trump.
He said Joffe had sent him a nondescript PDF document with the names of five to seven individuals, along with personal data. He called this a “tasking document” on “associates of Donald Trump and Russian entities” and said it included a sentence or two on each individual, their activities, and the names of Russian companies and alleged Russian affiliations. He said he immediately"knew it was a political request.
Novick said he put together a research team of three people and said the plan was to “hopefully do it quickly and get rid of it.” He compared his company’s normal operations to a satellite company that does flood plain analysis for a large area but said Joffe’s tasking was similar to focusing a satellite on someone’s backyard in the hopes of finding something related to Trump and Alfa-Bank.The judge presiding over the case against Sussmann ruled last week that the prosecution cannot bring up the fact Joffe had been cut off as a confidential human source in 2021, in part because of the Durham investigation.
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