The primary subsource for the infamous anti-Donald Trump “Steele dossier” was paid by the FBI for years and said in an email that he was working on a project “against Trump,” according to a new filing from special counsel John Durham’s team.
Igor Danchenko was made a paid FBI confidential informant in March 2017, prosecutors with Durham’s team said in a court document unsealed on Sept. 13.
Danchenko remained an informant until October 2020.
The FBI declined to comment, referring The Epoch Times to the Department of Justice. The department did not respond to a query.
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.
Prosecutors say Danchenko lied in multiple interviews with agents about information he conveyed to British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who compiled the dossier while being paid by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee.