The Chuck Dolan-Aleksej Gubarev Relationship Could Be Explosive
Did Steele Lie Under Oath About Where He Got the Gubarev Allegation In His Dossier?
Although the details of the indictment unsealed against Russian national Igor Danchenko on Thursday morning last November 4 have been public for a week now, very few media commentators have done any dot-connecting or asked the right questions - as least as far as I’ve seen.
Here’s one of the biggest omissions I’ve noticed in how the mainstream press is covering Danchenko’s case:
Not only did the indictment make it clear that one of the key members of Danchenko’s network of acquaintances supplying him with the Trump/Russia collusion stories was long-time Bill & Hillary Clinton associate Charles H. “Chuck” Dolan, it went on to indicate Dolan was the source for more than one allegation that Danchenko put in his company reports for Orbis Business Intelligence.
And we know these company reports for Orbis were the raw material that Steele was culling for the Steele Dossier entries for Fusion GPS - and by extension, the Clinton campaign, who was funding the entire project.
We know what one of the stories was that Dolan gave to Danchenko. His email to Danchenko about Paul Manafort’s firing as Donald Trump’s campaign chair appears almost verbatim in the dossier.
But Dolan was the source for at least one other allegation, perhaps more than one. Note the language used here in these parts of the charging document:
Given how the indictment is carefully worded to reveal there seem to be several allegations that Dolan was the source for, the fact he was acquainted with Russian tech entrepreneur Aleksej Gubarev is highly intriguing to me.
Because Gubarev’s name ended up in the Steele dossier. And he sued Christopher Steele for that. Did he end up suing the wrong person?
The story Steele told in the courtroom under oath about how Gubarev’s name came to be in his dossier never made any real sense. When asked how he came to put the story about Gubarev having played a role in facilitating the hacking of the DNC emails in his dossier, Steele did not attribute it to Danchenko or any other source.
Instead, Steele told the court he had found the story on the now defunct CNN website “iReports”, and had placed the claim about Gubarev in the dossier himself. Steele also went on to make himself look like a clown by confessing he had no idea that iReports was a website used by anonymous bloggers; he gave the impression he thought the posts were by CNN journalists.
There is now good reason to suspect Steele might not have been truthful about this. In other words, just as Danchenko did, Steele has been lying to hide the real sources of the dossier allegations.
Dolan had a prior relationship with Gubarev before the Russian tech executive’s name was included in one of the last Steele Dossier entries. In fact, Dolan appears to have been trying to solicit public relations business from Gubarev, when Gubarev learned he was in the Steele dossier being accused of having facilitated the commission of a crime. When Gubarev needed some fast P.R., it sure was convenient that he knew a top DC PR specialist, isn’t it?
I’m calling it now.
I am theorizing that Steele perjured himself in court claiming he got the Gubarev allegation in his dossier off the iReports website. I speculate that he very likely got it from Chuck Dolan. And his reasons for laying down a false trail for where the Gubarev allegation came from is that, just like Danchenko, he did not want to admit it came from a close associate of the Clinton family.
Since it’s seems pretty clear that Dolan was cooperating with the FBI back in 2017, it’s also very likely he is cooperating with the current Special Counsel’s Office.
Something that would be giving both Steele and Danchenko sleepless nights.
Well played! And here I was thinking Durham kept blind copying you on his emails!