It further alleges that the FBI and DOJ relied on the unverified Steele dossier to obtain a warrant to spy on a Trump campaign adviser, Carter Page, without telling the court about the Ohr connections or about the fact that the dossier, commissioned by Fusion GPS, was ultimately being funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.įusion GPS, a firm of former journalists, has been embroiled in national controversy since it emerged that the opposition research company hired Christopher Steele, the former spy who produced the dossier of salacious and unverified allegations about President Donald Trump. The memo alleges that Ohr maintained contact with Steele both before and after the spy was terminated by the FBI as a source. Ohr’s name has now emerged in the just released FISA memo authored by House Republicans. His wife, Nellie Ohr, has now become part of the controversy because she worked for Fusion GPS.

Department of Justice, was demoted in December 2017 because of contacts he allegedly had with the controversial Fusion GPS firm that hired the former British spy who developed the infamous “Trump dossier” on Russia. Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crimeīruce Ohr, an associate attorney general with the U.S.

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