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*'''September.''' Christopher Steele admitted to Assoc. Dep. Attorney General [[Bruce Ohr]] he "was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president," according to Ohr and FBI documents. In the same period Ohr's wife, Nellie Ohr, was employed by FusionGPS to assist in writing the ''Steele dossier''. Bruce Ohr's relationship with Steele and FusionGPS was concealed by the DOJ and FBI from the FISA court.
*'''September.''' Christopher Steele admitted to Assoc. Dep. Attorney General [[Bruce Ohr]] he "was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president," according to Ohr and FBI documents. In the same period Ohr's wife, Nellie Ohr, was employed by FusionGPS to assist in writing the ''Steele dossier''. Bruce Ohr's relationship with Steele and FusionGPS was concealed by the DOJ and FBI from the FISA court.
*[[Oleg Deripaska]] was in [[New York]] as part of Russia's [[United Nations]] delegation when three FBI agents awakened him in his home; at least one agent had worked with Deripaska on the aborted effort to rescue Robert Levinson. During an hour-long visit, the agents posited a theory that [[2016 Trump campaign|Trump's campaign]] was secretly colluding with Russia to hijack the U.S. election.
{{Quotebox|"Deripaska laughed but realized, despite the joviality, that they were serious," said his agent Adam Waldman. "So he told them in his informed opinion the idea they were proposing was false. 'You are trying to create something out of nothing,' he told them."}} The agents left though the FBI sought more information in 2017 from the Russian oligarch. Waldman declined to say if Deripaska has been in contact with the FBI since Sept, 2016.
The U.S. government in April 2018 imposed sanctions on Deripaska, one of several prominent Russians targeted to punish Vladimir Putin - using the same sort of allegations that the [[State Department]] used from 2006 to 2009. Yet, between those two episodes, Deripaska seemed good enough for the FBI to ask him to fund that multimillion-dollar rescue mission. And to seek his help on a sensitive political investigation. And to allow him into the country eight times.<ref>http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/387625-mueller-may-have-a-conflict-and-it-leads-directly-to-a-russian-oligarch </ref>
===October 2016===
===October 2016===