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[[File:Steele dossier fingerprint cartoon 2017.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The Obama administration tried to convince the American people through US intelligence agencies and the mainstream media that [[Vladimir Putin]] had colluded with the Trump campaign to elect Donald Trump, using the ''Steele dossier'' as evidence. The falsified document was bought and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.<br>''Illustration on the Steele Dossier by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times''<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/7/hillary-clinton-democrats-deluded-themselves/</ref>]]
[[File:Steele dossier fingerprint cartoon 2017.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The Obama administration tried to convince the American people through US intelligence agencies and the mainstream media that [[Vladimir Putin]] had colluded with the Trump campaign to elect Donald Trump, using the ''Steele dossier'' as evidence. The falsified document was bought and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.<br>''Illustration on the Steele Dossier by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times''<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/7/hillary-clinton-democrats-deluded-themselves/</ref>]]
===Fusion GPS===
===Fusion GPS===
[[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.
NABU and the Obama administration were working closely with [[Soros]] [[NGO]] Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC) in Ukraine. AntAC received 59 percent of its $1.7 million budget since 2012 from the U.S. State and Justice Departments, and another $290,000 from Soros’s International Renaissance Foundation. When Ukrainian prosecutors investigated AntAC over a missing $4.4 million in U.S. funding aid, they were told by Obama officials to stand down.
NABU and the Obama administration were working closely with [[Soros]] [[NGO]] Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC) in Ukraine. AntAC received 59 percent of its $1.7 million budget since 2012 from the U.S. State and Justice Departments, and another $290,000 from Soros’s International Renaissance Foundation. When Ukrainian prosecutors investigated AntAC over a missing $4.4 million in U.S. funding aid, they were told by Obama officials to stand down.
===Nellie Ohr===
==Ukrainian collusion==
:{{See also|Biden-Ukraine scandal}}
Nellie Ohr told congressional investigators on Oct. 19, 2018, that while she was working for FusionGPS, she was sometimes given leads from both Jake Berkowitz, her direct supervisor, and Fusion GPS co-founder [[Glenn Simpson]]. When asked if any Fusion research was based off “sources of theirs,” Nellie answered affirmatively but said the information that came from the sources wasn’t in relation to the Trump family.
When pressed, Nellie said she recalled them “mentioning someone named Serhiy Leshchenko, a Ukrainian.” She later admitted she knew of Leshchenko prior to her time at Fusion as he was a “very well-known, Ukrainian, anti-corruption activist” and said she had followed him in the press.
Leshchenko revealed the existence in 2016 of the so-called Ukrainian “Black Ledger,” which allegedly contained a list of secret payments made by Ukraine’s pro-Russian Party of Regions to [[Paul Manafort]] among many others.
Leshchenko had adopted a strong anti-Trump stance, telling the ''Financial Times'' of [[London]] in August 2016 that “a Trump presidency would change the pro-Ukrainian agenda in American foreign policy” and that it was “important to show not only the corruption aspect, but that he is [a] pro-Russian candidate who can break the geopolitical balance in the world.” Leschenko noted that the majority of Ukrainian politicians were “on Hillary Clinton’s side.”
Nellie Ohr said she wasn’t aware how the connection between Leshchenko and FusionGPS was established, or if they were doing work for him, but she did agree that Leshchenko was “a source of information” and acknowledged that she then used that information in following up and formulating her opposition research.
Later in Ohr’s testimony, Leshchenko was briefly mentioned once again. She appeared to be very careful with her choice of wording—especially when Manafort’s name came up:
{{quotebox|'''Ms. Sachsman Grooms:''' You mentioned that, at some point, somebody from Fusion GPS told you that they were giving you a tip that was based off of a source that was a Ukrainian source, Serhiy Leshchenko. Is that right?
'''Ms. Ohr:''' Yes. That they were—that they were giving me some information that had originated with him in some way.
'''Ms. Sachsman Grooms:''' Do you recall whether that information related to Mr. Manafort?
'''Ms. Ohr:''' What I’ll say is that at the time—at the same meeting, if I recall correctly, that his name came up, this piece of paper that lists Mr. Manafort’s flights was given to me, and I’m not—I don’t recall exactly right now whether they said this particular piece of paper comes from Mr. Leshchenko or not.}}
At this point, the questioning abruptly moved on and no further questions involving either Manafort or Leshchenko were put forth. Ohr was never asked if she had ever met with Leshchenko directly.
===Ukrainian prosecutors===
===Ukrainian prosecutors===