Wife of demoted DoJ prober worked for Fusion GPS

Bruce G. Ohr, a senior DoJ official who was demoted last week for concealing the fact that he secretly met with the men behind the anti-Trump "dossier," from the company known as Fusion GPS, also concealed the fact that his wife worked for that company during the 2016 presidential campaign, Fox News learned exclusively.

It was Fusion GPS that was responsible for the highly charged document of oppositional research on Trump.

Investigators for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) contacted Fox News and confirmed that Nellie H. Ohr, wife of Bruce Ohr, worked for the oppositional research company last year.

In psychotherapy terms, it's called a conflict of interest, and I'm sure that discipline is not alone in that way of thinking.

It isn't clear what Nellie Ohr's duties were at the firm, whether she actually worked on the dossier herself, but she's published works available online showing she has written extensively on Russia-related subjects.

HPSCI has confirmed to Fox News that she was paid by Fusion GPS through the summer and fall of 2016.

Woah Nellie!

The company received close scrutiny for a year because Republican lawmakers are probing as to whether the dossier, which was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee,  was used as the basis for the Department of Justice and the FBI to obtain FISA surveillance in 2016 on a Trump adviser, Carter Page.

Chairman of the committee, Devin Nunes (R.- Calif) told Fox News, "The House Intelligence Committee is looking into all facets of the connection between the Department of Justice and Fusion GPS, including Mr. Ohr."

The last time Ohr smiled

At first, DoJ officials were silent about Ohr's demotion. Then they said that his wearing two hats (holding two job titles) was "unusual." Finally they confirmed he had withheld his contacts with Fusion GPS people from his superiors.

Former FBI Director James Comey described the dossier as a compendium of "salacious and unverified" allegations about then-candidate Trump and his associates, including Mr. Page, who was working as a foreign policy adviser. The document was given to the FBI in July 2016, just before Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination.

Comey testified afterward that it was the same month the FBI began its counterintelligence probe of alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians.

The day prior to Fox News reporting that Ohr held secret meetings in 2016 with Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS, and Christopher Steele, a former British spy who compiled the dossier, the DoJ stripped Ohr of his deputy title and demoted him.

When Fox News disclosed that Ohr held those meetings it showed how the far reach of the dossier's creators. Steele, a longtime FBI informant is one of Ohr's contacts that dates back a decade. Ohr may have been the guy to put Fusion together with the FBI through Steele. 

Ohr's wife working for Fusion is, as Joe Biden might say, "a big f**k**g deal."

This is a developing scandal, so please stay tuned.


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