[[Christopher Steele]] began the infamous ''[[Steele dossier]]'' in a series of conversations with top [[U.S. Justice Department]] official [[Bruce Ohr]] between December 2015 and February 2016 about securing evidence against Manafort. The FBI set up shop in the U.S. embassy in Kiev to assist its Ukraine–Manafort inquiry while using Steele as an informant at the start of its Russia probe. Nellie Ohr, wife of [[Bruce Ohr]] and a researcher for Fusion GPS, testified to Congress that some of Fusion GPS's research came from a Ukrainian member of parliament.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/06/nellie-ohr-fusion-gps-leshchenko-ukraine/</ref> The Clinton campaign was using [[Perkins Coie]] law firm to pay [[FusionGPS]] for Steele's work to stop Trump from winning the presidency, at the same time Steele was a paid FBI informant. | [[Christopher Steele]] began the infamous ''[[Steele dossier]]'' in a series of conversations with top [[U.S. Justice Department]] official [[Bruce Ohr]] between December 2015 and February 2016 about securing evidence against Manafort. The FBI set up shop in the U.S. embassy in Kiev to assist its Ukraine–Manafort inquiry while using Steele as an informant at the start of its Russia probe. Nellie Ohr, wife of [[Bruce Ohr]] and a researcher for Fusion GPS, testified to Congress that some of Fusion GPS's research came from a Ukrainian member of parliament.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/06/nellie-ohr-fusion-gps-leshchenko-ukraine/</ref> The Clinton campaign was using [[Perkins Coie]] law firm to pay [[FusionGPS]] for Steele's work to stop Trump from winning the presidency, at the same time Steele was a paid FBI informant. |