A group backed by liberal billionaire George Soros contributed millions of dollars to firms connected to Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele, the author of the so-called Trump dossier.
Internal Revenue Service filings reveal The Democracy Integrity Project, founded in 2017 by a former staffer to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., $3.3 million was paid to Bean LLC., a holding company that oversees Fusion GPS. Separately, $250,000 was paid to London-based Walsingham Partners Ltd., which is owned by Steele and his business partner Christopher Burrows, the Daily Caller reports.
Similarly, hundreds of thousands of dollars were also paid to other firms with ties to Fusions GPS as contractors or law firms that represented Fusion GPS on legal matters concerning the dossier, according to TDIP’s tax filings.
Jones claimed he oversaw a “shadow media organization helping the government” investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election and that he intended to share his findings with federal investigators, the media, and lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
A lawyer from Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented the Clinton campaign and the Democratic national committee, hired Fusion GPS to conduct anti-Trump research and paid the firm a total of $1 million.
Fusion GPS then paid Steele almost $170,000 for a project that led to the dossier, which contains salacious information about President Trump and his relationship with Russia, and was published by BuzzFeed in January 2017.
Jones told the FBI in 2017 that seven to 10 donors financially backed the nonprofit. Additionally, attorney Adam Waldman who has ties to Steele, told the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2017 that Soros was one of the donors behind the nonprofit. The New York Times reported in 2018 that Soros contributed at least $1 million to the group.
