WaPo | The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee
helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing
allegations about President Trump’s connections to Russia and possible
coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin, people familiar with
the matter said.
Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton
campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to
conduct the research.
After that, Fusion GPS hired dossier author
Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to
the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community, according to those people,
who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Elias and his law firm,
Perkins Coie, retained the company in April 2016 on behalf of the
Clinton campaign and the DNC. Before that agreement, Fusion GPS’s
research into Trump was funded by an unknown Republican client during
the GOP primary.
The Clinton campaign and the DNC, through the
law firm, continued to fund Fusion GPS’s research through the end of
October 2016, days before Election Day.
