:::*Bruce Ohr and Steele worked on their own effort to get dirt on Manafort from a Russian oligarch, [[Oleg Deripaska]], who had a soured business relationship with Manafort. Deripaska was “almost ready to talk” to U.S. government officials regarding the money that “Manafort stole,” Bruce Ohr wrote in notes from his conversations with Steele.
:::*The efforts eventually led to a September 2016 meeting in which [[Andrew McCabe]] asked Deripaska if he could help prove Manafort was helping Trump collude with Russia. Deripaska laughed off the notion as preposterous.
::*''Politico'' reported that the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington assisted Clinton’s campaign through [[Alexandra Chalupa]], a DNC contractor. <ref>11 January, 2017. ''Politico'' investigation reports: <small>*A Ukrainian-American operative consulting for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) met with top officials in Ukraine’s U.S. embassy to publicize ties between Trump, his top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia. (It worked.)*Ukrainian officials tried to help Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. *Ukrainian officials “disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election.”*Ukrainian officials helped Clinton allies dig up damaging information on Trump and his advisers.*“The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort’s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to … Russia.”*According to ''Politico'':{{quotebox|“In an interview this month, at the DNC this past election cycle centered on mobilizing ethnic communities — including Ukrainian-Americans — she said that, when Trump’s unlikely presidential campaign. '''Chalupa told ''Politico'' she had developed a network of sources in [[Kiev]] and Washington, including investigative journalists, government officials and private intelligence operatives. While her consulting work began surging in late 2015''', she began focusing more on the research, and expanded it to include Trump’s ties to Russia, as well.”<ref>https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446</ref>}}*According to the ''Politico'' article, Alexandra Chalupa was meeting with the Ukrainian embassy in June of 2016 to discuss getting more help sticking it to candidate Trump. At the same time she was meeting, the embassy had a reception that highlighted female Ukrainian leaders. Four Verkhovna Rada [parliament] deputies there for the event included: Viktoriia Y. Ptashnyk, Anna A. Romanova, Alyona I. Shkrum, and Taras T. Pastukh.</font>*See also George Eliason, [https://www.mintpressnews.com/beyond-the-dnc-leaks-hacks-and-treason/247674/ George Eliason: Beyond the DNC - Leaks, Hacks, and Treason]/</ref>:*According to CNN [7/12/17], DNC sources said Chalupa told DNC operatives the Ukrainian government would be willing to deliver damaging information against Trump’s campaign. Later, Chalupa would lead the charge to try to unseat president-elect Trump starting on Nov 10, 2016.::*Accompanying them Kristina Dobrovolska who was a U.S. Embassy-assigned government liaison and translator who escorted the delegates from Kyiv during their visits to Albany and Washington.::*Kristina Dobrovolska is the handler manager working Nestor Paslawsky is the surviving nephew to the infamous torturer The WWII OUNb leader, Mykola Lebed.</small> The Ukrainian Embassy acknowledges it got requests for assistance from Chalupa to find dirt on Manafort.
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