A senior Department of Justice official demoted earlier in December for not disclosing meetings with Fusion GPS representatives is also married to a former employee of the firm behind the infamous Trump-Russia dossier, according to a report.
Nellie H. Ohr, wife of demoted DOJ official Bruce G. Ohr, worked for the opposition research business in the summer and fall of 2016 ahead of the presidential election, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence investigators told Fox News on Monday.
However, committee investigators did not divulge whether Nellie Ohr contributed to the controversial memo.
Republican lawmakers are currently investigating whether the document prompted a probe into Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page after it was handed over to the FBI in July 2016.
“The House Intelligence Committee is looking into all facets of the connections between the Department of Justice and Fusion GPS, including Mr. Ohr,” Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told Fox News on Monday.
Bruce Ohr, DOJ’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Director, was also an associate deputy attorney general until meetings he had last year with Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson and Christopher Steel, the ex-British spy responsible for the dossier, came to light on Dec. 7.
A Justice Department spokesman confirmed to the Washington Examiner that Ohr was no longer in the office of deputy attorney general.
“And he has been cleared to testify before Congress,” the representative said.
