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Undated: Glenn Robert Simpson (born 1964/1965) is an American former journalist who worked for The Wall Street Journal until 2009, and then co-founded the Washington-based research business Fusion GPS.[2] He was also a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center.[3]
He is the co-author of Dirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics written with political scientist Larry Sabato and published in 1996.[4] A New York Times book review called the book's approach "fiercely bipartisan".[5]
From September 2015 to May 2016, Simpson was retained by a conservative newspaper, the Washington Free Beacon, to collect information on many of the Republican presidential candidates including Donald Trump.[8][9][2][10]
After the Free Beacon stopped funding the research, the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign's law firm, Perkins Coie, picked up the deal with Simpson’s company Fusion GPS.[9] In June 2016, Fusion GPS hired Christopher Steele, a former MI6 agent, to obtain information on Trump. Steele used his "old contacts and farmed out other research to native Russian speakers who made phone calls on his behalf".[11] After November 2016, funding from the Democratic Party ceased, and Simpson reportedly spent his own money to fund further work on the dossier.[12]
In 2017 during Congressional inquiries into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, Simpson testified before the House Intelligence Committee that Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, and Ted Malloch, a "significant figure" in the Brexit campaign, had ties to each other.[13]
On August 22, 2017, Simpson was questioned for 10 hours by the Senate Judiciary Committee in a closed-door meeting. The Committee did not release a transcript of the hearing. Simpson reportedly did not reveal the identities of his clients.[14] The transcript was unilaterally released by Senator Dianne Feinstein on January 9, 2018.[15][16]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_R._Simpson
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January 9: The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee has released a transcript of a 22 August 2017 interview by congressional investigators of Glenn Simpson, founder of Fusion GPS, which is the research firm for whom a former British spy created a now-infamous collection of memoranda that has come to be known as the Trump-Russia dossier.
The dossier became public and the source of intense inquiry and partisan flamethrowing after BuzzFeed News published it on 10 January 2017 — just days before President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Since then, it has been blasted by the president as “fake news,” while Senate Republicans have sought to bring charges against its author, former MI6 agent Christopher Steele.
But in the 300-plus page transcript of the interview released by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) on 9 January 2018, Simpson spoke highly of Steele, noting he insisted on contacting the Federal Bureau of Investigation once he uncovered what he believed to be evidence of wrongdoing. Simpson also described Steele as a modest “Boy Scout” with a sterling reputation, who is respected and regarded as reliable by his peers in the international intelligence community.
Simpson said his firm contracted with Steele, a Russia expert, to help do fact-finding and research on Trump for unnamed political clients in the run-up to the election, and while he expected Steele to turn up evidence of corruption involving Trump’s business dealings, he was caught off guard by the information Steele was compiling, which seemed to indicate something more sinister was afoot.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/01/09/fusion-gps-fbi-trump-campaign/
May 16: Materials from Inquiry into Circumstances Surrounding Trump Tower Meeting
Glenn Simpson
(interviewed August 22, 2017)
Transcript
Exhibits
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/releases/materials-from-inquiry-into-circumstances-surrounding-trump-tower-meeting
October 12: The Judiciary Committee plans to force Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson to appear next week to plead the Fifth in response to a subpoena.
A Republican House Judiciary Committee aide told CNN the committee expects him to appear in compliance of the subpoena, even though Simpson's lawyer said he wouldn't answer questions before the panel.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes used similar tactics when his panel subpoenaed Simpson last year, though he ultimately testified before that committee voluntarily.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/11/politics/glenn-simpson-house-judiciary-subpoena/index.html
October 14: Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson in 'real legal jeopardy', GOP investigator says
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fusion-gps-co-founder-glenn-simpson-in-real-legal-jeopardy-gop-investigator-says
December 4: Grassley: Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson gave ‘extremely misleading’ testimony to Senate
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/grassley-fusion-gps-founder-glenn-simpson-gave-extremely-misleading-testimony-to-senate
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