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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)
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Transcript
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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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