{"id":1640390,"date":"2022-09-13T17:50:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T21:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1640390"},"modified":"2022-09-13T18:23:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T22:23:36","slug":"igor-danchenko-was-paid-fbi-informant-said-he-was-working-against-trump-filing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/igor-danchenko-was-paid-fbi-informant-said-he-was-working-against-trump-filing\/","title":{"rendered":"Igor Danchenko Was Paid FBI Informant, Said He Was Working \u2018Against Trump:\u2019 Filing"},"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%2Figor-danchenko-was-paid-fbi-informant-said-he-was-working-against-trump-filing%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=1640390&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>The primary subsource for the infamous anti-Donald Trump \u201cSteele dossier\u201d was paid by the FBI for years and said in an email that he was working on a project \u201cagainst Trump,\u201d according to a new filing from special counsel John Durham\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-igor-danchenko\">Igor Danchenko<\/a> was made a paid FBI confidential informant in March 2017, prosecutors with Durham\u2019s team said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22347938-durham-motion\">a court document<\/a> unsealed on Sept. 13.<\/p>\n<p>Danchenko remained an informant until October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Danchenko, a Russian national who lives in the United States, is scheduled to be tried in October on five counts of lying to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say Danchenko lied in multiple interviews with agents about information he conveyed to British ex-spy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-christopher-steele\">Christopher Steele<\/a>, who compiled the dossier while being paid by Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Steele has expressed animus against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Danchenko disclosed in an email ahead of the 2016 election that he was part of an effort that was \u201cagainst Trump,\u201d according to the new filing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCould you please ask someone to comment on Manafort\u2019s resignation and anything on Trump campaign? Off the record of course! Any thought, rumor, allegation,\u201d Danchenko wrote to Charles Dolan, a longtime Clinton associate, on Aug. 19, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Manafort, Trump\u2019s campaign manager, had just resigned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am working on a related project against Trump. I asked [an acquaintance of Dolan] three months ago but he didn\u2019t say much although shared a couple of valuable insights,\u201d Danchenko added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven that Dolan was aware of the fact that the defendant was employed by Steele, the only inference to be drawn is that the \u2018project against Trump\u2019 was being done on behalf of Steele and Orbis,\u201d prosecutors said in the new filing.<\/p>\n<p>Orbis Business Intelligence is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The primary subsource for the infamous anti-Donald Trump \u201cSteele dossier\u201d was paid by the FBI for years and said in an email that he was working on a project \u201cagainst Trump,\u201d according to a new filing from special counsel John Durham\u2019s team. 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