

During this trip, DANCHENKO did not meet or communicate with Chamber President-I. On or about July 28, 2016, DANCHENKO visited, among other places, the Bronx Zoo with the family member. As for that trip to New York, hoo boy:įrom on about Jthrough July 28, 2016, DANCHENKO traveled to New York with a family member. The indictment, however, asserts that Danchenko never even spoke to Millian, repeatedly emailing him and getting no response. Danchenko moreover reportedly told the FBI that he and the “anonymous caller” made an appointment to meet in New York.

At one point, it was believed this claim was sourced to an anonymous phone call Danchenko thought came from the former president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce, Sergei Millian. For instance, a key claim of the Steele dossier involved a “well-developed conspiracy of cooperation” between Trump and Russia that supposedly went back years, and was managed on the Trump side by Paul Manafort and Carter Page. Russiagate is already a sizable boil on the face of American journalism, but the indictment of Danchenko has the potential to grow the profession’s embarrassment to fantastic dimensions. MORE: A lawyer for Charles Dolan, a public relations executive with a long history of ties to the Democratic Party, confirms his client is the person identified as “PR Executive-1” in the indictment. public relations firm.” New York Times reporter Charlie Savage received confirmation from the lawyer of a man named Charles Dolan that Dolan is, in fact, the executive: Much of the indictment concerns false statements Danchenko allegedly made to the FBI concerning his interactions with “PR Executive-1,” described as a “U.S.-based individual… who was a long-time participant in Democratic Party politics and was then an executive at a U.S. Whatever the category below “disgraced journalist” is, she entered it with gusto with last night’s performance. They almost all look terrible today, but the response by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow was a thing beyond. The case has implications for higher-ranking figures, but the indictment is most immediately devastating to the reputation of the many famous news personalities who hyped the Steele story.

Yesterday, Special Counsel John Durham indicted Brookings Institute analyst Igor Danchenko, better known as the primary source for Christopher Steele, the ex-spy who compiled the now-infamous “Steele Dossier” on behalf of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2016.
