Charles Dolan, Jr.
Charles Halliday Dolan, Jr. is a longtime Democratic party operative for Bill and Hillary Clinton.[1]
Igor Danchenko, the primary subsource of Christopher Steele who wrote the Steele dossier, was arrested on November 3, 2021, for giving multiple false statements to the FBI during his 2017 interviews. These included lies about Danchenko's sources, his travels to Russia, and his falsified contacts with Sergei Millian. Special Counsel John Durham alleged that one of Danchenko's real “sources” was Charles Dolan, Jr. (perhaps first identified by Aaron Mate), who was an advisor to Hillary Clinton in her 2016 campaign for president.
The Hillary Clinton Campaign paid for the Steele dossier and the work by Fusion GPS. This was arranged through their attorneys (and the DNC attorneys) at Perkins Coie - notably Mark Elias and Michael Sussmann. Sussmann was indicted in September 2021 by Special Counsel Durham for giving false statements relating to the Alfa Bank/Trump hoax. Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan received backchannel updates on the Alfa Bank hoax. The New York Times reported in September 2021 on the complicity of the 2016 Clinton Campaign:
| "Some of the questions that Mr. Durham’s team has been asking in recent months — including of witnesses it subpoenaed before a grand jury, according to people familiar with some of the sessions — suggest he has been pursuing a theory that the Clinton campaign used Perkins Coie to submit dubious information to the F.B.I. about Russia and Mr. Trump in an effort to gin up investigative activity to hurt his 2016 campaign."[2] |
According to Durham's complaint, Danchenko's attorney is a partner at the firm that is "currently representing the 2016 “Hillary for America” presidential campaign (the “Clinton Campaign”), as well as multiple former employees of that campaign, in matters before the Special Counsel.”[3]
Dolan's collusion with Russia
Charles Dolan has been a close associate of and adviser to Hillary Clinton. As a result, Dolan frequently interacted with senior Russian Federation leadership whose names would later appear in the Steele Dossier, such as Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov and Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. In 2006, the Kremlin signed a deal with Ketchum, the PR firm where Dolan served as vice president for public affairs. As part of that agreement, Ketchum was to handle global public relations for the Russian government as well as the state-owned energy company Gazprom.
Many of the allegations contained in the Steele Dossier came directly from Dolan, who had conveyed them to Igor Danchenko who, in turn, reported them to Christopher Steele. Dolan 's role as a contributor of information to the Steele Dossier was highly relevant and material to the FBI's evaluation of those reports because Dolan maintained pre-existing and ongoing relationships with numerous persons named or described in the Dossier, including one of Danchenko's Russian sub-sources; Dolan maintained historical and ongoing involvement in Democratic party politics, which bore upon Dolan's reliability, motivations, and potential bias as a source of information for the Dossier; and Igor Danchenko gathered some of the information contained in the Dossier at events in Moscow organized by Dolan and others that Danchenko attended at Dolan's invitation. Certain allegations that Danchenko provided to Steele, and which appeared in the Dossier, mirrored and/or reflected information that Dolan himself also had received through his own interactions with Russian nationals.
References
- ↑ Anatomy of a media hit job — how press pushed Clinton’s lies against Trump, By Post Editorial Board, The New York Post, November 9, 2021.
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/us/politics/durham-michael-sussmann-trump-russia.html
- ↑ https://www.scribd.com/document/548384111/Danchenko-ECF-35-US-Motion-to-Inquire-Into-Potential-Conflicts-of-Interest
