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the business intelligence consultancy Christopher Steele co-foundedChris Burrows
https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/gov.uscourts.flsd_.610157.1.0.pdf
a. In taking on this assignment, Steele was aware that “Democratic Party associates”
were paying for his and Fusion GPS’s “research,” and that “the ultimate client”
was “the leadership of the Clinton presidential campaign.”23
b. Critically, Steele has testified that “the candidate”—Hillary Clinton—was “aware
of [his] reporting.”24
c. Furthermore, Steele shared the common goal of the Defendants’ overarching
conspiracy: he “was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected” and he “was
passionate about [Donald J. Trump] not being president.”25
Soon thereafter—at the direction of Clinton, the Clinton Campaign, the DNC,
Perkins Coie, and Fusion GPS—Orbis Ltd. and Steele, with the assistance of Mook, Nellie Ohr,
Danchenko Dolan, and others, began preparing approximately seventeen anti-Trump memoranda
known collectively as the “Steele Dossier” or simply the “Dossier.”
Just after the Dossier was published, Podesta met Simpson to compare notes on
Russia meddling in the election.26
Robby Mook, manager of the Clinton Campaign, has denied having knowledge of
who funded the Dossier. However, Elias testified he sent the bills from Fusion GPS to Mook.27
24 - (HRC) FBI Notes at 96; see also Tr. of Steele Dep. at 163