President Donald Trump continues to call for the Justice Department to launch investigations into 'corruption' at the FBI, 'illegal surveillance' of his presidential campaign, and the 'phony' and 'corrupt dossier,' which he still insists started the federal probe
President Donald Trump continues to call for the Justice Department to launch investigations into"corruption" at the FBI,"illegal surveillance" of his presidential campaign, and the"phony" and"corrupt dossier," which he still insists started the federal probe of contacts between Russian operatives and his associates.
-- Looking to share the work of a longtime acquaintance, senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr passed on “dossier”-linked information to the FBI. But the first recorded meeting between Ohr and the FBI came four months after the FBI launched its investigation and a full month after the FBI used previously-obtained information from the “dossier” to support secret surveillance of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
JANUARY 2016: Former British spy Christopher Steele sends a"happy new year" message to someone he’s known for some time, Bruce Ohr, the head of the Justice Department’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. Steele also mentions their mutual interest in a Russian oligarch they previously followed together and who may be visiting the United States soon.
AROUND MARCH 24, 2016: While in London, Papadopoulos sends an email to Carter Page and other campaign members, telling them the professor he met in Italy two weeks earlier has introduced him to the Russian ambassador to England and a Russian woman who is supposedly Putin’s niece. Papadopoulos says in the email that the two Russians might be able to help set up a meeting between Trump and Putin.
LATE MAY 2016: Papadopoulos tells the Greek Foreign Minister that the Russians have “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. JUNE 20, 2016: Steele compiles a report concluding the Kremlin had “cultivat[ed]” and “compromised” Trump, and it was “feeding Trump and his team valuable intelligence” on Hillary Clinton and others.
JULY 7-8, 2016: Carter Page travels to Moscow for the commencement speech at the New Economic School. After the event, according to what he later tells congressional investigators, he “briefly” speaks to Arkadiy Dvorkovich, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister, and they exchange “some nice pleasantries.” Shortly after the brief greeting, he sends an email to members of the Trump campaign stating: “In a private conversation, Dvorkovich expressed strong support for Mr.
JULY 19, 2016: Steele compiles a report for Fusion GPS saying “Trump advisor Carter Page [held] secret meetings in Moscow” with two associates of Vladimir Putin. In one of those meetings, Page was allegedly told the Kremlin might give the Trump campaign “a dossier of ‘kompromat’” -- a compilation of compromising information -- about Hillary Clinton.
SEPT. 25, 2016: Carter Page sends a letter to FBI Director James Comey, referencing the allegations in media reports two days earlier and denying them.OCT. 7, 2016: WikiLeaks releases emails stolen by Russian hackers from the personal email account of John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman. OCT. 19 AND OCT. 20, 2016: Steele compiles two reports alleging Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, met with Kremlin officials months earlier in Prague. The reports say the meeting took place in August and was intended to limit the damage from the exposure of “Trump foreign policy advisor Carter Page’s secret meetings in Moscow with senior [Russian] regime figures in July 2016.” Cohen has denied the reports.OCT.
AFTER NOV. 24, 2016: Steele and Simpson of Fusion GPS are concerned that no one “at a high level of government was aware of the information that Chris had gathered and provided to the FBI,” as Simpson later puts it to House investigators. So Steele suggests that Simpson of Fusion GPS reconnect with Ohr.
DEC. 20, 2016: Ohr speaks with someone at the FBI. According to top Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, this conversation covers Ohr's contacts with Steele. Another “302” report is produced by the FBI. JAN. 2017 : The FBI files an application with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to continue monitoring Carter Page’s communications. Even though the FBI’s relationship with Steele has been suspended, the FBI says in its application that his latest information is still deemed “reliable” as his previous reporting “has been corroborated and used in criminal proceedings.” A federal judge nominated to the federal bench by George W. Bush, Michael Mosman, approves the continued surveillance.
FEB. 6, 2017: Ohr speaks with someone at the FBI. According to top Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, this conversation covers Ohr's contacts with Steele. Another “302” report is produced by the FBI. APRIL 2017: Repeating the same information that was included in previous applications, the FBI submits another application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to continue monitoring Carter Page’s communications. A federal judge nominated to the federal bench by then-President George H. W. Bush, Anne Conway, approves the continued surveillance.
MAY 17, 2017: Rosenstein appoints Robert Mueller as special counsel. Among other things, Mueller is directed to investigate “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with” Trump’s presidential campaign. AUGUST 2017: Cohen states that Felix Sater, a frequent Trump Organization associate, suggested in mid-January 2016 that Cohen send an email to Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov to initiate approval process for the development of the Trump Tower Moscow, but “those permissions were never provided.” Cohen says he “decided to abandon the proposal” by the end of January.
DEC. 1, 2017: Trump’s former national security adviser, Flynn, pleads guilty to lying to investigators about his contacts with Russians. MAY 2018: Former Trump campaign aide and longtime Stone associate Michael Caputo meets with special counsel’s team for the first time. Caputo has faced two congressional committees for interviews over since 2017.
AUG. 21, 2018: A federal jury in Virginia convicts Paul Manafort on eight charges tied to years of tax evasion and financial fraud unrelated to his work on the campaign. On the same day, Cohen pleads guilty to illegal campaign contributions in a case in the Southern District of New York. OCT. 2018: Former Stone associate Andrew Miller fights Mueller grand jury's subpoena by questioning the special counsel's constitutionality. Concord Management and Consulting, LLC, one of 13 Russian individuals and entities indicted by Mueller in February, has brought up a similar challenge against Mueller. Judge later dismisses Concord's case, but Miller's challenge is still ongoing.
NOV. 12, 2018: Corsi says he expects to be indicted by the special counsel. Corsi is one of more than a dozen individuals associated with Stone who have been contacted by the special counsel. The witnesses, many of whom have appeared before the grand jury impaneled by Mueller’s team, have told ABC News they were asked about Stone’s dealings during the 2016 election and what if any contact he may have had with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange through an intermediary.
DEC. 17, 2018: Two former business associates of Flynn – Bijan Rafiekian, also known as Bijan Kian, and Kamil Ekim Alptekin – are indicted for conspiring to influence U.S. politicians and public opinion on behalf of the Turkish government. The next day, Kian pleads not guilty failing to properly disclose the nature of his lobbying efforts on behalf of the Turkish government.
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