WASHINGTON — A Russian analyst who contributed to a dossier of Democratic-funded research into ties between Russia and Donald Trump was arrested on Nov. 4 on charges of lying to the FBI about his sources of information, among them a longtime supporter of Hillary Clinton.
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Associated Press: Analyst who aided Trump-Russia dossier charged with lying
(FILES) In this file photo taken on Dec. 11, US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, Republican od South Carolina, holds a copy of the Steel dossier during a committee hearing regarding the report on the FBIs investigation into possible connections between Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and the Trump campaign. - Igor Danchenko, who was a key source for the explosive dossier by former British spy Christopher Steele that purportedly documented ties between Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign and Moscow, was arrested on Nov. 4, 2021, the US Justice Department said. Danchenko, a consultant and former researcher in Russian affairs at the Brookings Institution, was indicted for lying to FBI investigators in early 2017 about his own sources for the dossier.
