and the DNC paid the firm 3.6 million in legal and. DNC nor Clinton put that dossier together, nor are they foolish enough to put money into it if there was not a solid reason to do so.

Fusion GPS cooperated with former British MI6 intelligence officer Christopher Steele, who later prepared the dossier, which alleged that Trump and his associates had ties to Moscow and that Russian special services had helped him win the 2016 election.According to the FEC, the money paid to Perkins Coie was listed in disclosure forms as payments for “legal advice and services” rather than opposition research, which was said by the Commission to be a violation of electoral legislation.Neither the Clinton campaign nor the DNC admitted to the FEC’s finding, but said they “will not further contest the Commission’s finding of probable cause,” according to the newspaper. The dossier has become a lightning rod amid the intensifying investigations into the Trump campaign’s possible connections to Russia. The Federal Election Commission has fined both Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) for lying about the usage of funds allocated for the notorious Steele dossier on former President Donald Trump, the New York Post reported on Wednesday.Clinton’s campaign and the DNC were fined $8,000 and $105,000 respectively for wrongfully describing money paid to Fusion GPS, the consulting firm that commissioned the dossier, according to FEC documents viewed by the Post.Clinton’s campaign and the DNC paid over $1 million to Perkins Coie law firm, which hired Fusion GPS to collect compromising data on Trump.

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