Special Counsel Durham May Personally Try Danchenko Case, Court Filing Indicates
Special Counsel John Durham has indicated he will personally argue before the court his case against Igor Danchenko, a source for the infamous Steele dossier who’s facing multiple charges of lying to the FBI.
Durham filed a Notice of Appearance with the federal court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Aug. 1, which suggests he will present the case to the court himself, rather than leaving the task to his staff attorneys as before (pdf).
Durham was the only one speaking for the prosecution during the case’s status conference before the court on Aug. 1, Epoch Times on-scene reporter Terri Wu confirmed.
The Danchenko trial is the last one Durham has lined up unless he files more indictments.
Durham indicted Danchenko, a Russia analyst formerly with the Brookings Institution, in November 2021. Danchenko was paid in 2016 by former British spy Christopher Steele to collect dirt on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. Steele was in turn hired through business intelligence firm Fusion GPS to collect dirt on Trump by the campaign of Trump’s opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Danchenko told the FBI some of the most explosive information he provided Steele came from Belarus-born real estate agent Sergei Millian, which was false, Durham’s indictment said. Millian never spoke with Danchenko.
Longtime Clinton operative Charles Dolan admitted to the FBI that he provided (and fabricated) some of the information that Danchenko passed on to Steele. Other unsubstantiated allegations came from Danchenko’s former schoolmate Olga Galkina.
Durham was tasked around March-May 2019 with reviewing the 2016–2017 FBI investigation of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia to sway the election. The investigation didn’t establish any such collusion.
In August 2020, Durham indicted former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith for altering a CIA email to say that former Trump campaign aide Carter Page
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