According to the Times, the Danchenko interview led the agents to believe that parts of the dossier were misleading and included more speculation than was originally suggested.Ī Dec. The charges against Danchenko are not yet known but are expected to be unsealed sometime on Thursday, according to The Washington Post, which spoke with people familiar with the matter.įederal agents interviewed Danchenko in 2017 when trying to verify certain claims made in the Steele dossier, which was compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele with information from Danchenko. Durham, who is looking into whether there was any wrongdoing in the FBI’s investigation of the Trump administration’s ties with Russia.
Danchenko was arrested as part of a special counsel inquiry being led by John H. Igor Danchenko - the analyst who was the lead researcher on the infamous Steele dossier that made outlandish claims about then-President Elect Donald Trump, including the allegation that a tape existed of him with urinating hookers in a Russian hotel room - was arrested Thursday by federal authorities, The New York Times reported.ĭanchenko is a Russia analyst who reported in the Steele dossier the infamous pee tape claim that Trump asked “a number of prostitutes to perform a ‘golden showers’ (urination) show in front of him,” although no evidence has been revealed to back that claim up.
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