A date for Nellie Ohr, the wife of a Justice Department official who had knowledge of the Russia investigation, to testify to congressional investigators has been set.
House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said Sunday that Ohr is “cooperating” with lawmakers.
“We have a date for her appearance before the committee for an interview on Oct. 19th,” he added while on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo.
Ohr worked for the opposition research firm that commissioned the creation of the Christopher Steele dossier, Fusion GPS, and is the wife of Bruce Ohr, who has raised red flag with GOP lawmakers after he fed the FBI information from Steele even after the ex-British spy was removed as an FBI source.
Lawmakers believed Nellie Ohr might appear for an interview last week, but when that effort appeared to be going nowhere, the idea of issuing a subpoena was floated if she didn’t agree to appear willingly.
Fusion GPS was commissioned in part by the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign to collect and disseminate information into a dossier that connected President Trump to Russia.
A House Judiciary Committee aide also told the Washington Examiner last week that the panel, which has been working with the House Oversight Committee on a joint investigation into the Justice Department and FBI’s actions during the 2016 presidential election, could “compel” the testimony of former FBI General Counsel James Baker.
Baker, a close confidante of fired FBI Director James Comey who resigned from the FBI in May, worked on both the Hillary Clinton email investigation and Russia investigation. He resigned in May after being reassigned by new FBI Director Christopher Wray due to what many speculated was a leak probe.
Goodlatte did not mention Sunday if Baker is now cooperating.
