“ Agents tried to flip Russian Oligarchs. The fallout spread to Trump” by Kenneth P. Vogel and Matthew Rosenberg on The New York Times
This article is a goldmine. I suggest reading it all, but here are the basics.
1. Oleg V. Deripaska is a Russian oligarch with close ties to the kremlin and Putin. Maybe the closest. He has been linked to extortion, bribery, and murder.
2. Despite this, in 2014-2016 the DOJ tried to turn him into an informant by offering him a visa and helping him with his “ legal” problems. They failed.
3. After Trump became the GOP candidate they tried to get him to “flip” on Trump by pressuring him to say he was the link between his old embittered business partner ( Manafort) and Putin. They failed again.
4. During this Steele was working for the DOJ, FBI, Fusion GPS, and Deripaska himself. He advocated for the oligarch saying he wasn’t a “tool” of Putin.
5. Deripaska worked with the US in an attempt to save a retired FBI agent turned CIA spy who was captured in Iran. Spending 25 million of his own money.
6. Steele worked as an intermediary between multiple Russian oligarchs through his company Orbis.
7. When all this failed, Steele, who was working for Fusion GPS started working on the dossier with Bruce Ohr, who’s wife was also working for Fusion GPS doing anti Trump opposition research.
http://archive.today/Gvj8V
