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☆ Trump Lawyers Attend Court Hearing as DOJ Presses Aides in Mar-a-Lago Probe
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Sadie Gurman | Aruna Viswanatha | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

FBI agents in August removed more than 11,000 documents from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. WASHINGTON—Donald Trump’s lawyers appeared in federal court for a closed-door proceeding Thursday, as prosecutors press for the return of what they believe to be more government documents in the former president’s possession and step up efforts to interview people close to him, according to people familiar with the matter. The lawyers, Jim Trusty, Evan Corcoran and Lindsey Halligan, declined to comment as they left the courthouse in Washington.

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☆ Igor Danchenko Acquitted of Lying to FBI About Trump-Russia Dossier
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Aruna Viswanatha | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ALEXANDRIA, Va.— Igor Danchenko , a consultant whose information comprised the bulk of the 2016 “Steele dossier,” was acquitted Tuesday of lying to the FBI, leaving special counsel John Durham with losses in both cases he took to trial as his yearslong inquiry into the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election winds down. Over four days in federal court outside Washington, D.C., Mr. Durham sought to portray Mr. Danchenko as fabricating one of his own sources and concealing another one when the FBI questioned him in 2017 about where he obtained the allegations he provided to ex-British spy Christopher Steele , who was paid by Democratic operatives to collect opposition research on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and alleged ties to the Kremlin.

☆ Durham’s Steele Dossier Case Hits Hurdles From His Own FBI Witnesses
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Aruna Viswanatha | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Igor Danchenko is accused of lying to FBI agents as they probed Russian interference in the 2016 election. ALEXANDRIA, Va.—A central source for a salacious 2016 dossier on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump became a valuable informant for the FBI and agents who worked with him thought he was telling the truth, FBI employees testified this week. Their testimony, as witnesses in a case brought by the prosecution, presented serious challenges to Special Counsel John Durham ’s case against consultant Igor Danchenko on charges of lying to the FBI, the second case Mr. Durham has brought in his yearslong inquiry into actions FBI agents took as they probed Russian interference in the 2016 election. Mr. Durham engaged in heated confrontations with two of his primary witnesses, including at the end of Thursday with FBI agent Kevin Helson.

☆ Trial Opens for Igor Danchenko, Key Source of Discredited Steele Dossier
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Aruna Viswanatha | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Igor Danchenko, who is charged with five counts of making false statements to the FBI, arrived at the courthouse for his trial in Alexandria, Va., on Tuesday. ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Prosecutors revisited the tumultuous 2016 presidential campaign as they opened their case against Igor Danchenko, saying the analyst who had served as a central source for a dossier of opposition research material about then-candidate Donald Trump and his alleged ties to Russia repeatedly lied to the FBI at a crucial moment in an unprecedented inquiry. “This is a false-statements case, about lies that the FBI relied on in a historic investigation,” assistant special counsel Michael Keilty told jurors on Tuesday, describing how the Federal Bureau of Investigation raced to determine the validity of the dossier’s allegations that the Trump campaign was coordinating with the Russian government to influence the presidential election.

WASHINGTON—A lawyer for Donald Trump has told federal investigators that a fellow attorney assured her that he had conducted a thorough search of the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate before asking her to certify in June that all government records requested in a subpoena had been returned, according to a person familiar with the matter. The certification by Christina Bobb was undermined two months later when the FBI searched the Florida compound and retrieved boxes of presidential records that belong to the National Archives along with classified documents. Ms. Bobb’s interview with Justice Department investigators on Friday marked the latest twist in the confrontation between the former president and the government over missing records.

WASHINGTON—An appeals court late Wednesday granted the Justice Department’s request to retain control of the classified materials seized at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and continue its criminal investigation into the handling of those documents, in a big win for the government. In a 29-page decision, the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta lifted an earlier order from a federal judge who had barred federal agents from using roughly 100 classified documents seized as part of its probe into whether any national-security risks had been posed by the way the highly sensitive government material was being held at Mr. Trump’s Florida home.

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