{"id":1633180,"date":"2022-09-05T09:49:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T13:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1633180"},"modified":"2022-09-05T09:50:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T13:50:05","slug":"steele-dossier-source-asks-court-to-throw-out-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/steele-dossier-source-asks-court-to-throw-out-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Steele Dossier Source Asks Court to Throw Out Charges"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fsteele-dossier-source-asks-court-to-throw-out-charges%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=1633180&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--><p>A key source for the anti-Trump dossier paid for by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-hillary-clinton\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>\u2019s campaign has asked a federal judge to throw out charges filed against him after he allegedly lied to federal agents about where he got the information he fed the dossier\u2019s author.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-igor-danchenko\">Igor Danchenko<\/a>, a Russian national, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22274770-igor-danchenko-motion-to-dismiss\">says<\/a> that the five false statement charges were improperly filed because he made statements that were \u201cliterally true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The charges stem from interviews in 2017 where Danchenko answered questions from FBI agents regarding the dossier.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/durham-investigators-arrest-steele-dossier-source-igor-dachenko-spokesman_4086220.html\">charging documents<\/a>, Danchenko said at one point that he had never communicated with a U.S.-based public relations expert\u2014identified as longtime Clinton associate Charles Dolan\u2014about any of the allegations in the dossier, but in reality Danchenko sourced at least one of the allegations from Dolan.<\/p>\n<p>Danchenko also lied, according to the documents, about believing that a phone call he received came from a businessman Sergei Millian described in court papers as Chamber President-1 and that the person on the other end told him certain information, and that he arranged to meet the person in New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn truth and fact \u2026 DANCHENKO never received such a phone call or such information from any person he believed to be Chamber-President 1, and DANCEHNKO [sic] never made any arrangements to meet with Chamber President-1 in New York,\u201d the indictment states. \u201cRather, DANCHENKO fabricated these facts regarding Chamber President-1.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u2018Ambiguous Answers\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>In the new filing, Danchenko says that his answers did not violate the law, which prohibits making \u201cmaterially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation\u201d to federal agents or in federal court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe law criminalizes only unambiguously false statements that are material to a specific decision of the government. By contrast, literally true or ambiguous statements, even if they are unresponsive or misleading, or false statements about ancillary matters,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key source for the anti-Trump dossier paid for by Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign has asked a federal judge to throw out charges filed against him after he allegedly lied to federal agents about where he got the information he fed the dossier\u2019s author. Igor Danchenko, a Russian national, says that the five false statement charges [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"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-1633180","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\/1633180","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633180\/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=1633180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}