Opening arguments began Tuesday in the trial of Russian information analyst Igor Danchenko, who supplied information to the now-discredited Steele dossier, is on trial for allegedly lying to the FBI. Federal prosecutors are attempting to make the case the defendant fabricated and concealed sources in talking to FBI about the Trump campaign-Russia collusion matters.
The sides on Tuesday also disputed the facts about an alleged call Danchenko suggested he received from a Belarusian-born businessman named Sergei Millian, who at the time was serving as president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce, and whether information in the dossier was indeed from Millian.
- "Danchenko never received such a phone call or such information from any person he believed to be" Millian," according to the indictment. “Rather, Dancchenko fabricated these facts regarding” Millian in an effort to secure a FISA warrant to surveil at least one person connected to the collusion theory
The trial is being held in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division
- This is the second trial for Special Counsel John Durham's probe into the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation
- The first trial in May was for former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann
- Seven witnesses are set to be called in the trial, which is expected to last about a week
Danchenko has pleaded not guilty to the charges..
- He allegedly lied to the FBI about his sources for the information he gave to former British spy Christopher Steele for the dossier.
- In Durham's investigation, prior to Sussmann's trial, former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty to falsifying a surveillance document during the Trump-Russia collusion investigation.
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/jurors-sworn-denchenko-trial-open-argument-set-begin
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