{"id":1349764,"date":"2022-02-28T15:23:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T20:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1349764"},"modified":"2022-02-28T15:23:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T20:23:35","slug":"tech-guru-who-worked-with-clinton-campaign-pleaded-the-fifth-in-durham-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tech-guru-who-worked-with-clinton-campaign-pleaded-the-fifth-in-durham-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Guru Who Worked With Clinton Campaign Pleaded the Fifth in Durham Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftech-guru-who-worked-with-clinton-campaign-pleaded-the-fifth-in-durham-probe%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1349764&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-28-at-2.55.28-PM-e1646078182503.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A prominent tech guru who worked with the Clinton campaign to investigate Donald Trump\u2019s possible links to Russia pleaded the Fifth to avoid cooperating with Special Counsel John Durham\u2019s investigation, according to court filings.<\/p>\n<p>Rodney Joffe said in a deposition this month that he invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination in response to a grand jury subpoena by Durham. Joffe testified that he was contacted by the special counsel more than a year ago to provide testimony and documents, seemingly about his efforts to investigate Trump. Joffe has been identified as the tech executive who worked with Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann to investigate purportedly suspicious email server contacts between the Trump Organization and Russia\u2019s Alfa Bank. The FBI investigated the allegations but ultimately found them baseless. Durham has released other evidence that casts doubt on the Trump-Alfa link.<\/p>\n<p>Joffe\u2019s interactions with the Durham team suggest the prosecutor is taking a hard look at Joffe\u2019s work with the Clinton campaign to dig up dirt on Trump. While Joffe has not been accused of criminal wrongdoing, Durham has alleged that he &#8220;exploited&#8221; web traffic data for the White House, Trump Tower, and Trump\u2019s apartment building in order to find &#8220;derogatory&#8221; information on Trump. Durham <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/clinton-campaign-lawyer-gave-sensitive-trump-data-to-cia-special-counsel-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alleged<\/a> that Joffe provided the information to Sussmann, who in turn shared it with the CIA in February 2017. Responding to the revelation, Trump called for criminal prosecution for the people involved in the &#8220;spying operation&#8221; against him.<\/p>\n<p>Durham indicted Sussmann in September on charges of lying to the FBI about his investigation into Trump. Durham has also accused Sussmann of withholding evidence from the CIA during the 2017 meeting that would have undercut the theory that Trump had secret contacts with Alfa Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Durham\u2019s inquiry into Joffe\u2019s activities could reach the Biden White House. Clinton campaign lawyers briefed national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Joffe\u2019s findings in September 2016, when Sullivan served as Hillary Clinton\u2019s foreign policy adviser.<\/p>\n<p>Joffe first provided information to Sussmann in mid-2016. He claimed to have received data showing covert links between Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization. Sussmann, a cybersecurity attorney, fed the information to media outlets and shared it with the FBI\u2019s general counsel during a meeting in September 2016. Durham alleges Sussmann lied during that meeting by denying he was looking into the server link on behalf of a client.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys for Alfa Bank deposed Joffe on Feb. 11 as part of a lawsuit to find out the origins of the computer data linking the bank to the Trump Organization. Alfa Bank alleges that someone fabricated the data in order to frame Trump and Alfa Bank. Joffe denied in his deposition to Alfa Bank\u2019s lawyers that he fabricated the data. He also denied receiving any payments from the Clinton campaign. Joffe\u2019s attorney, Steven Tyrrell, said during the deposition that he believed the Durham investigation will conclude within the next several weeks. Tyrrell did not respond to a request for additional comment.<\/p>\n<p>Alfa Bank\u2019s court filing sheds other light on the direction of the Durham probe.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for Fusion GPS, the firm behind the Steele dossier, told Alfa Bank\u2019s lawyers in a deposition on Feb. 14 that the company has cooperated with Durham for nearly a year. The Fusion GPS lawyer said in a deposition for the company\u2019s cofounder, Peter Fritsch, that the firm is a &#8220;subject&#8221; of Durham\u2019s investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Fusion GPS commissioned the Steele dossier on behalf of Clinton campaign lawyer Marc Elias. Numerous federal and congressional investigations have debunked the dossier\u2019s central claim of a &#8220;well-orchestrated conspiracy of cooperation&#8221; between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Durham <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/main-source-for-steele-dossier-lied-to-fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">indicted<\/a> the primary source for the dossier, Igor Danchenko, on charges that he lied to the FBI in 2017 about his sources of information for the salacious document.<\/p>\n<p>Durham\u2019s office did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>\u00a0was once a client of Fusion GPS. All of the work Fusion GPS performed for the\u00a0<em>Free Beacon<\/em>\u00a0was based on public sources, and none of the work product appeared in the Steele dossier. For more information,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/uncategorized\/fusion-gps-washington-free-beacon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prominent tech guru who worked with the Clinton campaign to investigate Donald Trump\u2019s possible links to Russia pleaded the Fifth to avoid cooperating with Special Counsel John Durham\u2019s investigation,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}