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Igor Danchenko was acquitted of four counts of lying to the FBI by a federal jury on Tuesday. Danchenko was the consultant whose information made up most of the 2016 Steele Dossier.
Prosecutors said that Danchenko gave false information to the Bureau in 2017 after the agency attempted to verify information in a dossier that alleged that there were ties between the Trump team and Russia. The dossier, which carried very little water, was used by the FBI as justification to spy on President Trump campaign aide Carter Page, reports NBC News.
Danchenko told the FBI that he was given the information in an anonymous phone call in 2016 from someone who he believed to be American businessman Sergei Millian. Prosecutors say the call never happened, while the defense claimed that it did via an encrypted phone app.
Milian's email records were obtained by the government, and while there were messages from Danchenko, there was no contact information for any apps, or any evidence that the two had a call together. Millian denies being a source for the information in the dossier.
Danchenko was arrested in November of last year as a part of special counsel John Durham's investigation into the FBI's Trump-Russia prove.
Durham's legal team summoned witnesses during the trial, including FBI analyst Brian Auten who said that the agency offered $1 million to Steele if he could provide the source for the evidence that could lead "to a successful prosecution stemming from the allegations in his dossier."
FBI agent Kevin Helson, Danchenko's "handler" from 2017 until 2020, recalled that Danchenko had been upset about how "Mr. Steele embellished the information he provided."
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
Prosecutors said that Danchenko gave false information to the Bureau in 2017 after the agency attempted to verify information in a dossier that alleged that there were ties between the Trump team and Russia. The dossier, which carried very little water, was used by the FBI as justification to spy on President Trump campaign aide Carter Page, reports NBC News.
Danchenko told the FBI that he was given the information in an anonymous phone call in 2016 from someone who he believed to be American businessman Sergei Millian. Prosecutors say the call never happened, while the defense claimed that it did via an encrypted phone app.
Milian's email records were obtained by the government, and while there were messages from Danchenko, there was no contact information for any apps, or any evidence that the two had a call together. Millian denies being a source for the information in the dossier.
Danchenko was arrested in November of last year as a part of special counsel John Durham's investigation into the FBI's Trump-Russia prove.
Durham's legal team summoned witnesses during the trial, including FBI analyst Brian Auten who said that the agency offered $1 million to Steele if he could provide the source for the evidence that could lead "to a successful prosecution stemming from the allegations in his dossier."
FBI agent Kevin Helson, Danchenko's "handler" from 2017 until 2020, recalled that Danchenko had been upset about how "Mr. Steele embellished the information he provided."
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
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