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Undated: Bruce Genesoke Ohr is a United States Department of Justice official. A former associate deputy attorney general and former director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF),[1] as of February 2018 Ohr was working in the Justice Department's Criminal Division.[2] He is an expert on transnational organized crime and has spent most of his career overseeing gang and racketeering-related prosecutions,[3] including Russian organized crime.[4]
Ohr was little-known until 2018, when he became the subject of Republican scrutiny and conservative conspiracy theories[5][6][7][8] over his purported involvement in starting the probe on Russian interference in the 2016 election. He was criticized by President Donald Trump, who accused Ohr of abusing his access to sensitive information.[5][6] No evidence has emerged that Ohr was involved in the initiation of the Russia probe or that Ohr mishandled sensitive information.[6][7] According to a comprehensive review by ABC News, Ohr "had little impact on the FBI’s growing probe into Trump and his associates."[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Ohr
-- 2018 --
August 11: Who is Bruce Ohr? -- Ohr exists in a netherworld — a subject of fascination in right-leaning media, barely a mention in mainstream media. His name last appeared in the pages of The Washington Post in February, and yet President Trump keeps tweeting about him. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, in announcing that Trump had revoked the security clearance of former CIA director John Brennan, listed the names of other people who also faced revocation of clearances ... Ohr’s name was on the list.
Ohr was associate deputy attorney general until late 2017, when the DOJ learned of his contacts with Steele. He briefly continued as head of Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) but then lost that job, too. It’s unclear what role he plays now at the DOJ. The agency declined to comment, except to point to a statement by Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein.
“Mr. Ohr is a career employee of the department. He was there when I arrived. To my knowledge, he wasn't working on the Russia matter,” Rosenstein told the House Intelligence Committee on June 28. “When we learned of the relevant information, we arranged to transfer Mr. Ohr to a different office.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/08/16/who-is-bruce-ohr-why-does-trump-keep-tweeting-about-him/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2636a6038554
August 23: He went around his DOJ bosses, but Bruce Ohr offered little to Russia probe, sources say
A veteran Justice Department prosecutor was operating outside his chain of command when he engaged senior FBI officials on a series of salacious and startling allegations tying Donald Trump to Russian operatives, but those interactions had little impact on the FBI’s growing probe into Trump and his associates, according to interviews with multiple sources and an ABC News review of public testimony and documents.
This offers the most comprehensive account yet of the actions taken by Bruce Ohr, whom President Donald Trump wants fired for what the president described as "helping to create the phony, dirty and discredited dossier" that is at the center of Republican attacks on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
By the time Ohr provided the so-called “dossier” to the FBI in late 2016, counterintelligence agents had already received a copy of it, and they were already investigating alleged ties between Trump’s campaign staff and the Russian government, according to congressional testimony.
Ohr was “a non-figure, a non-entity in all of this,” one source familiar with the investigation told ABC News. “I don’t find a real significance to him.”
Trump and his political allies, however, have used Ohr’s connection to ferociously attack Mueller’s investigation as a political “witch hunt.” In the past two weeks alone, Trump has tweeted about Ohr at least seven times, and last week -- while standing before cameras outside of the White House -- he threatened to revoke Ohr's security clearance for "doing what he did."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/doj-bosses-bruce-ohr-offered-russia-probe-sources/story?id=57367588
August 27: Bruce Ohr Fought Russian Organized Crime. Now He’s a Target of Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/us/politics/bruce-ohr-trump-justice-department.html
August 28: Justice Department official in Trump's crosshairs faces lawmakers Tuesday
The closed-door session is expected to focus on Ohr's relationship with Christopher Steele, the British spy behind the dossier that included salacious and unverified intelligence on Trump and Russia. It is an unlikely turn in the spotlight for the nearly 30-year veteran of the Department of Justice, who has built a reputation as the "consummate government servant" and an expert on global organized crime.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/28/politics/bruce-ohr-testimony/index.html
August 28: Bruce Ohr to lawmakers: FBI doubts credibility of anti-Trump dossier
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/28/bruce-ohr-to-lawmakers-fbi-doubts-credibility-of-a/
August 29: Democrats Defend DOJ’s Bruce Ohr Day After Republican Grilling
GOP meetings on potential bias at DOJ and FBI have Democrats crying foul
Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees have jumped to the defense of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, who met behind closed doors with Republican lawmakers Tuesday as part of their probe into potential bias at the top reaches of U.S. law enforcement.
Top Judiciary Democrat Jerrold Nadler of New York and Oversight ranking member Elijah E. Cummings said the private hearing with Ohr, the second of four meetings Republicans have scheduled with DOJ and FBI officials over the August recess, was meant to distract from President Donald Trump’s increasingly precarious legal position as special counsel Robert S. Mueller III secures guilty verdicts and plea agreements with multiple people in Trump’s inner circle.
https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/democrats-defend-dojs-bruce-ohr-day-republican-grilling
August 30: Trump suggests Bruce Ohr, Justice official linked to Russia dossier, should be fired
President Trump on Wednesday escalated his criticism of a Justice Department official whose link to a controversial dossier of allegations about the Trump campaign has prompted scrutiny from the president and his allies in Congress, suggesting in a sharply worded tweet that the career civil servant should be fired.
“How the hell is Bruce Ohr still employed at the Justice Department? Disgraceful! Witch Hunt!” Trump wrote to his 54 million Twitter followers Wednesday morning.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-intensifies-attack-on-bruce-ohr-justice-official-linked-to-russia-dossier/2018/08/29/41960442-aae8-11e8-b1da-ff7faa680710_story.html?utm_term=.eb09ffa19cb3
August 30: DOJ's Bruce Ohr kept Mueller deputy 'in the loop' about anti-Trump dossier, sources say
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dojs-bruce-ohr-kept-mueller-deputy-in-the-loop-about-anti-trump-dossier-sources-say
August 30: Understanding Trump vs. Bruce Ohr: Think Russia's top crime boss, Semion Mogilevich
Amidst President Donald Trump’s ongoing threats to revoke security clearances from various critics, perhaps the most mysterious person on his enemy list is Bruce Ohr, the Justice Department lawyer who has repeatedly been a Trump target for reasons that have never been clearly articulated. Ohr has never criticized Trump as far as anyone is aware, and has worked at the Justice Department as an award-winning civil servant for nearly thirty years in Republican and Democratic administrations alike.
It has been noted that Ohr had ties to the notorious Christopher Steele dossier and that his wife worked for Fusion GPS, which hired Steele, a former British agent, to investigate Trump. But there is quite likely another reason which could trouble Trump even more: Ohr’s job in the Justice Department involved facing off against Russian crime boss Semion Mogilevich whose operatives have been using Trump branded properties to launder millions of dollars for more than three decades.
https://www.justsecurity.org/60528/understanding-pres-trump-vs-bruce-ohr-russias-top-crime-boss-semion-mogilevich/
August 30: Trump turns up the heat on Sessions to fire Bruce Ohr over claims the DOJ official acted as a conduit for his Russian-speaking wife Nellie to get the dirty dossier into the hands of the FBI
Trump has threatened to take Ohr's security clearnace away if Sessions won't fire him
The dossier that Nellie Ohr's firm commissioned was used as evidence in a search warrant to spy on a Trump associate and contained humiliating claims about the former businessman's conduct.
Ohr was an employee at the time at the opposition research firm Fusion GPS. The firm hired an ex-British spy, Christopher Steele, a friend of the Ohrs, to build the case against Trump on Hillary Clinton's campaign's behalf. The work was later funded by Republicans.
Reports indicate Nellie Ohr did not work on the dossier and her time at Fusion GPS did not influence her husband's work at DOJ.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6114645/Trump-turns-heat-Sessions-fire-Bruce-Ohr-colluding-wife.html
August 31: Ohr says Steele told him Russian intel believed they had Trump 'over a barrel'
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/31/politics/bruce-ohr-christopher-steele-donald-trump/index.html
September 9: Trump expected to declassify Carter Page and Bruce Ohr documents
https://www.axios.com/trump-declassify-carter-page-bruce-ohr-documents-307ff599-df29-49db-ae01-a8b027908b12.html
September 18: Trump target Bruce Ohr remembered in Oak Ridge as part of special family
Bruce Ohr, the focus of recent attacks by President Donald Trump, is an Oak Ridge native remembered for his family's brains and kindness to a dog.
The White House announced in early August that Trump was considering revoking Ohr's security clearance because of his involvement with former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele and Ohr's wife's employment by the company that hired Steele to prepare a controversial dossier on the president's ties
"They were a very musically inclined family and he was very, very smart," said Melanie Fillauer, who lived two doors down from the Ohrs growing up. "They were no different than anyone else, they were just very very intelligent."
"I remember them being very involved in everything in our neighborhood," she said. They were just an extremely nice family."
Fillauer said the Ohr's adopted a blind dog named Prince that became a sort of neighborhood mascot.
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2018/09/18/trump-target-bruce-ohr-remembered-oak-ridge-part-good-family/1201765002/
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