![]() ![]() ![]() Simpson spoke with the House committee as part of the congressional Russia investigations that are probing Russian interference in the 2016 election. The dossier was published by BuzzFeed News in January 2017. What Steele-who worked as an MI6 spy in Russia in the 90s and once headed the agency's Russia desk-learned during his probing of his sources in Russia so concerned him that he eventually took his findings to the FBI during the 2016 election.Ī dossier compiled by Steele alleges that Trump's former campaign chief Paul Manafort and other campaign figures and associates worked with the Kremlin to spread dirt on Clinton. Read more: Trump-Russia dossier: Republicans, Devin Nunes, want dirt on FBI and Justice to discredit salacious report "As we pieced together the early years of his biography, it seemed as if during the early part of his career he had connections to a lot of Italian mafia figures, and then gradually during the 90s became associated with Russian mafia figures," Simpson said. Trump's business career had evolved over the prior decade into a lot of projects in overseas places, particularly in the former Soviet Union, that were very opaque, and that he had made a number of trips to Russia, but said he'd never done a business deal there." The research was then funded by Hillary Clinton's campaign after Trump won the nomination.ĭuring his firm's research, Simpson said that he "increasingly saw that Mr. ![]() Simpson's firm was first hired to research Trump by The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative publication, during the Republican primaries. ![]()
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