Igor Danchenko Found ‘Not Guilty’ By a Durham Jury

Russian national, Igor Danchenko, served as the main sub-source for the anti-Trump dossier, was just found not guilty on all charges of making false statements to the FBI by a jury on Tuesday.

Special Counsel John Durham, who is investigating the origins of the FBI‘s initial Trump-Russia probe, had filed the charges.

The Danchenko trial is the second one coming from the John Durham probe to end up with a not guilty verdict. I guess it’s impossible to get a fair jury i the surrounding DC area when it concerns Donald Trump.

Former Clinton lawyer, Michael Sussmann, was also found not guilty of lying to the FBI back in June 2022.

“We’ve known all along that Mr. Danchenko was innocent,” Danchenko’s attorney, Stuart Sears, said on Tuesday. “We’re happy now that the American public knows that as well.”

Durham issued a formal statement on the verdict.

“While we are disappointed in the outcome, we respect the jury’s decision and thank them for their service,” Durham said Tuesday. “I also want to recognize and thank the investigators and the prosecution team for their dedicated efforts in seeking truth and justice in this case.”

last week, District Judge Anthony Trenga cleared Danchenko of one of the charges he was facing via Rule 29, which is a motion every lawyer makes by trying to claim that the prosecution didn’t have enough evidence to make the charge.

When Danchenko said he had not “talked” to longtime Democratic operative and PR executive Charles Dolan about information that was included in the Steele dossier, Count One asserted that he had lied to FBI Special Agent Kevin Helson.

Christopher Steele, the ex-British spy, used the Russian as its main secondary source for the infamous dossier.

Through law firm Perkins Coie, the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton‘s presidential campaign paid for the dossier, which was ordered by opposition research firm Fusion GPS.

The dossier served as the basis to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant on former Trump campaign volunteer, Carter Page.

The dossier, according to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz in 2019, was used to support the initial FISA warrant and its three renewals. Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee said that the dossier was on justification for the warrants that led to the FBI spying on Page.

After accounting for the FBI’s false information, the Justice Department acknowledged in 2020 that the FISA warrants to monitor Page did not meet the requisite legal requirements and should have have been issued.

During the tiral, it was revealed that Danchanko was paid by the FBI over $200k when they hired him as a classified human source in March 2017 after the Trump-Russia Hillary Clinton-FBI-created hoax was in full swing.

Over the years while doing business in Russia, Page was approached by the CIA and the FBI and asked to gather information during his business visits to Russia but instead of being paid for his work, he did it voluntarily out of being a patriot and felt it was his duty as a loyal American. The FBI then threw Page under the bus and treated him like he was a spy just so that they could use the two-hop rule to spy on other members of the Trump campaign in 2016.

The FBI met with Steele overseas back in October 2016 to pick up more information on claims that were made in the phony dossier.

During the trial, an FBI analyst revealed that the FBI offered Steele $1 million to corroborate the garbage information in the dossier. He didn’t take the money because he couldn’t authenticate anything found in the documents.

The individual further stated that although neither the FBI nor any other U.S. intelligence agency had any evidence to support the allegations in the dossier, they nevertheless utilized it to support the FISA warrant against Page despite not having any such evidence.