Thursday 15 September 2022 08:32 PM Russian analyst charged with lying to the FBI about Steele dossier was an ... trends now
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A Russian analyst who was charged with lying to the FBI about the infamous Steele dossier had been a paid informant for the bureau, a court filing claimed on Tuesday.
Igor Danchenko was allegedly recruited as an FBI mole in March 2017 - about three months after the bureau began investigating him and the gossip-filled dossier he helped create.
It's also more than four years before he was indicted for lying to federal investigators about information he gave to former British spy Christopher Steele.
Steele used information from Danchenko, among other sources, to compile a dossier with sordid details that accuse Donald Trump of being in Vladimir Putin's pocket.
The dossier was used to launch the FBI's investigation of the Trump 2016 campaign's alleged links to Russia, known as Crossfire Hurricane.
Much of the dossier has since been debunked.
In late 2021, Danchenko pleaded not guilty to five counts of making false statements to the FBI
