![]() Prosecutors said Danchenko lied about the identity of his own sources for the material he gave to Steele. As it turned out, the FBI used material from the dossier to support applications for warrantless surveillance of a Trump campaign official, Carter Page, even though the FBI never was able to corroborate a single allegation in the dossier. Prosecutors said that if Danchenko had been more honest about his sources, the FBI might not have treated the dossier so credulously. Trump derided the dossier as fake news and a political witch hunt when it became public in 2017.ĭanchenko, by his own admission, was responsible for 80% of the raw intelligence in the dossier and half of the accompanying analysis, though trial testimony indicated that Danchenko was shocked and dismayed about how Steele presented the material and portrayed it as factual when Danchenko considered it more to be rumor and speculation. Most famously, it alleged that the Russians could have blackmail material on Trump for his supposed interactions with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel. ![]() It was the first of the three cases to delve deeply into the origins of the "Steele dossier," a compendium of allegations that Trump's 2016 presidential campaign was colluding with the Kremlin. The first two cases ended in an acquittal and a guilty plea with a sentence of probation. The case against Igor Danchenko was the third and possibly final case brought by Special Counsel John Durham as part of his probe into how the FBI conducted its own investigation into allegations of collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
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